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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
May. 06, 2021
Applicant:
Medtronic Xomed, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Inventors:
Samuel Gladstone, St Johns, FL (US);
Ali Mowlai-Ashtiani, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic Xomed, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/12 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/018 (2006.01); A61B 1/233 (2006.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/126 (2013.01); A61B 1/00135 (2013.01); A61B 1/00142 (2013.01); A61B 1/018 (2013.01); A61B 1/233 (2013.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01);
Abstract
A method for cleaning an endoscope during a surgical procedure performed with a surgical instrument. The method includes: measuring with a processor module an aggregate activation time of the surgical instrument during the surgical procedure; and activating an endoscope cleaning system with the processor module to clean a lens of the surgical instrument after the processor module determines that the measured aggregate activation time of the surgical instrument has reached a target duration.