Cilag International Gmbh

Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc.

Ethicon, Gmbh

Cincinnati Sub-zero Products, Inc.

Jacqueline C Aronhalt

Daniel W Price

Cory G Kimball

William Eugene Clem

William D Dannaher

John B Schulte

Stephen J Balek

Michael R Lamping

Jeffrey David Messerly

Timothy G Dietz

Ashvani K Madan

Donna L Korvick

Sora Rhee

Danius P Silkaitis

Frederick E Shelton, IV

Taylor W Aronhalt

Shane R Adams

Foster B Stulen

Jason L Harris

Kevin Michael Fiebig

Eitan T Wiener

Nicholas J Ross

Anthony V Beran

Matthew D Cowperthwait

Jerome B Batta

Danius P Silkaitus

A surgical stapling system is disclosed that comprises a closure driver, a firing driver, and a control circuit. The control circuit is to set a firing force threshold, advance the closure driver, advance the firing driver, monitor a firing force as the firing driver is advanced, compare the firing force to the firing force threshold, and control movement of at least one of the closure driver or the firing driver based on results of the compare and a zone in which the firing driver is positioned.

Zoned algorithm adaptive changes based on correlation of cooperative compression contributions of tissue

Systems, methods, and devices for selectively adjustable data exchange are provided. In an aspect, an assembly including a protective container having a medical device disposed therein is provided. The protective container can be sealed to prevent contaminates from contacting the medical device. The assembly can further include a radiofrequency identification (RFID) tag disposed within the protective container. The RFID can include a data processor and memory storing first data and instructions configured to cause the data processor to perform operations. The operations can include receiving request data from a remote network in operable communication with the RFID. The request data can characterize a future data processing operation to be performed on a subset of the first data after the subset is transmitted from the RFID tag and a request for the subset of the first data to be transmitted from the RFID tag to the remote network. The operations can include determining the subset of the first data to be provided to the remote network. The operations can further include providing the determined subset of the first data to the remote network.

System and method for selectively adjustable data exchange between a smart package and a requesting system

A surgical instrument comprises a body assembly and an end effector. The body assembly includes a control module, an orientation sensor communicatively coupled to the control module, and an energy component. The energy component is operable to activate the end effector at a plurality of energy settings. A storage device is communicatively coupled to the control module and includes a plurality of gesture profiles and corresponding energy settings. The control module is configured to set the energy setting of the energy component to a corresponding energy setting in response to a correlation between the output of the orientation sensor and a gesture profile. In some versions, the control module modifies the energy setting based upon output from a force sensor that measures the force on the end effector. The control module may also decrease the energy setting in response to an anomalous acceleration or deceleration detected by an accelerometer.

Surgical instrument with orientation sensing

An apparatus includes an end effector, an energy component, a control module, and a directional force sensor assembly associated with the energy component and control module. The directional force assembly can include a piezoelectric disc, a piezoresistive element, an accelerometer, and/or a Hall Effect sensor. The end effector of the apparatus can include ultrasonic blade, an RF electrode, or a staple driving assembly. In some versions, the energy component includes an ultrasonic transducer. The control module may be configured to operate the energy component at a first energy setting in response to a first detected force and at a second energy setting in response to a second detected force. The apparatus may also include an activation feature to be operated by a user. In some versions the piezoelectric disc may include a plurality of segments and may be configured to induce movement in at least part of the energy component.

Surgical instrument with stress sensor

A fluid disinfection unit [is incorporated into a patient warming/cooling system [], to reduce the risk of bacteria buildup in the warming/cooling fluid, which is typically water. More particularly, a mobile housing [contains the operable components for circulating warming/cooling fluid to a patient [, including a pump [], a heating/cooling source [, a reservoir [, a controller [] and a control panel [to assist a user in operating the components. The reservoir [has upper [] and lower [] sections, for replenishing water and circulating water, respectively. A UV source [is mounted so as to extend through both reservoir sections [], to simultaneously emit UV light into both sections during circulation of the warming/cooling fluid, thereby to disinfect the water contained therein. The UV source [] includes a bulb [protected within a transparent cover [that is completely transparent, and has been treated so as to be shatterproof. A sensor [mounted to the housing [detects the UV emission level within the reservoir [, and generates a signal to indicate the on/off status of the UV bulb [, and/or the magnitude of the UV light within the reservoir [

Fluid disinfection unit for patient temperature control system

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Loveland, OH, United States of America

Jacqueline C Aronhalt