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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2018
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Srinivas Kavuturu, Okemos, MI (US);
Ranjan Mukherjee, Okemos, MI (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
A surgical tool includes opposing jaws, handles and at least one pressure sensor. Another aspect of a surgical tool includes opposing jaws with each having an organ-contacting surface area of at least 50 mm. A further aspect of a surgical tool includes an electronic controller connected to at least one pressure sensor and automatically adapted to calculate or determine an organ-hardness from a sensor when jaws are moved to an organ-compressing position. In yet another aspect of a surgical tool, a pressure sensor is mounted to a pancreas-compressing surface and a displacement transducer or sensor is mounted to and/or located within a handle coupled to the surface, and an electronic controller is mounted to and/or located within the handle for calculating a hardness of a pancreas and/or other organ.