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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2020
Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);
Charles R. Kollar, West Hartford, CT (US);
David E. Valentine, Hamden, CT (US);
Alexander Hart, Tolland, CT (US);
James Delbo, Danville, PA (US);
Jonathan M. Sandor, North Haven, CT (US);
Haley Strassner, Hamden, CT (US);
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
A surgical device includes a handle assembly, an adapter assembly configured to selectively couple to the handle assembly, an annular reload configured to selectively couple to a distal portion of the adapter assembly, and a shipping cap coupled to the annular reload and configured to detach from the annular reload in response to a movement of a trocar of the adapter assembly. The annular reload has a memory having stored therein information about the reload. The handle assembly includes a controller configured to encode to the memory an occurrence of a detachment of the shipping cap from the reload.