US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 14 for "Surgical device with removably coupled components" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,895, issued on July 14, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical device with removably coupled components" was invented by Ethan Collins (Naugatuck, Conn.), John Hryb (Southington, Conn.), Anthony Calderoni (Bristol, Conn.) and John Pantazis (Stratford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument for applying fasteners includes a drive motor, a replaceable loading unit having an end-effector assembly, and an adapter configured to releaseably couple a replaceable loading unit to the drive motor. The adapter includes a strain gauge having a drive circuit coupled thereto. The strain gauge and the drive ci...