US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 18 for "Powered surgical devices including predictive motor control" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,361, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Powered surgical devices including predictive motor control" was invented by Christopher Kelly Evans (Southington, Conn.) and Thomas Wingardner (North Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powered handheld electromechanical surgical device includes a motor configured to drive extension and retraction of a drive component, a sensor configured to sense force exerted on the drive component during extension of the drive component, and a controller including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when exec...