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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2019
Applicant:

Medtronic Xomed, Inc, Jacksonville, FL (US);

Inventors:

Michael L. Koltz, Jacksonville, FL (US);

Christopher L. Fair, Jacksonville, FL (US);

Michael S. Ferrell, Jacksonville, FL (US);

Andrzej Klimaszewski, Jacksonville, FL (US);

David J. Little, II, Jacksonville, FL (US);

Manfred K. Luedi, Jacksonville, FL (US);

Gerould Norman, Jacksonville, FL (US);

Robert K. Vaccaro, Jacksonville, FL (US);

Assignee:

MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC., Jacksonville, FL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/00 (2013.01); A61B 17/1622 (2013.01); A61B 17/1626 (2013.01); A61B 17/7074 (2013.01); A61B 17/162 (2013.01);
Abstract

A surgical system which may include a controller, a data entry device, a powered surgical handpiece and a surgical tool adapted to couple to the surgical handpiece. The surgical handpiece can include motor direction control and feedback, safety stop features, stimulation and nerve integrity monitoring, a tool connector assembly configured to retain a variety of surgical tools and optional navigation and/or electric ratcheting features.


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