US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on June 23 for "Power control arrangements for surgical instruments and batteries" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,096, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Power control arrangements for surgical instruments and batteries" was invented by Wendy A. Kerr (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to battery unit for use with surgical instruments. The battery units may comprise a plurality of cells and include a translatable discharge drain. When attached to the surgical instrument, the discharge drain may electrically connect an anode of the battery unit to a cathode of the battery unit, for example, via a resistive element in order to drain the battery unit."

The paten...