US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 20 for "Methods for estimating and controlling state of ultrasonic end effector" (Ohio, South Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,159, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Methods for estimating and controlling state of ultrasonic end effector" was invented by Cameron R. Nott (Fairfield, Ohio), Foster B. Stulen (Johns Island, S.C.), Fergus P. Quigley (Mason, Ohio), John E. Brady (Cincinnati), Gregory A. Trees (Loveland, Ohio), Amrita S. Sawhney (Cincinnati), Patrick J. Scoggins (Loveland, Ohio), Kristen G. Denzinger (Cincinnati), Craig N. Faller (Batavia, Ohio), Madeleine C. Jayme (Cincinnati), Alexander R. Cuti (Pittsburgh), Matthew S. Schneider (Blue Ash, Ohio), Chad P. Boudreaux (Cincinnati), Brian D. Black (Loveland, Ohio), Maxwell T. Rockman (Cincinnati), Grego...