US Patent Issued to Stryker on Feb. 10 for "Pulse control for ultrasonic tool systems" (American, Irish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,094, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Pulse control for ultrasonic tool systems" was invented by Adam D. Downey (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Guillaume Gras (Bienne, Switzerland) and Conor McCarthy (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling vibrations of a tip of an ultrasonic instrument. A maximum ultrasonic energy level for the ultrasonic instrument is determined, and a minimum ultrasonic energy level for the ultrasonic instrument is determined based on the maximum ultrasonic energy level. An AC drive signal is then sourced to the ultrasonic instrument that induces ult...