US Patent Issued to INSURGICAL on Oct. 27 for "Mechanism to wake a battery in a surgical device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,192, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to INSURGICAL INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Mechanism to wake a battery in a surgical device" was invented by Richard Acevedo (Austin, Texas), Peter M Aman (Austin, Texas), Philip Tetzlaff (Austin, Texas), Aaron Jon Fowler (Leander, Texas) and Kevin R Simpson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism configured for use in a medical device, to wake a medical grade battery or medical grade battery pack from an inactive state may comprise a switch, an electrical circuit activated by a trigger mechanism, a pre-programmed timing event mechanism incorporated within the circuitry of the medical ...