Stryker Corporation

Brett Robert Merkel

Steven Thomas Clifford

Anthony William Gatica

Anna-Karin Soederstroem

Adam Darwin Downey

Mark William Friedman

Darryl D Daniel

Robert Mitchell Baldwin, Ii

Benjamin Fineout

Zachary Kemp

Michael Laubenthal

Jon Bodnar

Michael Teasdale Smith

Darryl David Daniel, Ii

Scott Douglas Slade

The console-based surgical system includes a footswitch having a footswitch connector line and an input visual indicator having a light emitter. The console-based surgical system includes a surgical console including instrument ports for coupling to and transmitting an energization signal to a surgical instrument and a footswitch port for coupling to and receiving a signal from the footswitch. Each instrument port includes an instrument visual indicator and the footswitch port includes a footswitch visual indicator. The indicators include a light emitter and a ring-shaped light guide. The surgical console includes a controller, which associates the footswitch port with an instrument port and activates the light emitter of the input visual indicator, the footswitch visual indicator, and the instrument visual indicator of the associated instrument port to emit a matching colored light. The controller receives a signal from the footswitch and generates and transmits an energization signal to the associated instrument port to actuate a function of the surgical instrument coupled to the associated instrument port.

System and method for indicating mapping of console-based surgical systems

An aspiration system to control vacuum pressure in an ultrasonic surgical handpiece to result in improved control responsiveness during aspiration. The system comprises a console including a vacuum pump. The system includes a cassette comprising a joint that divides a vacuum path into at least two flow paths. A first joint port couples to a first flow path. A second flow path is coupled to a second joint port, a third flow path is coupled to a third joint port, and a fourth flow path is coupled to a port on a surgical waste receiver. A first sensor senses pressure in the fourth flow path and provides a waste receiver pressure signal. A second sensor senses pressure in the third flow path and provides a tip pressure signal. The controller controls a position of a first vent valve and a second vent valve based on the waste receiver pressure signal and the tip pressure signal, respectively.

Systems and methods for improving control responsiveness during aspiration

Ultrasonic surgical console

Surgical console for use with footswitches

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Portage, MI, United States of America

Brett Robert Merkel