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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2021
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Babak Jasemian, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Tibor Laszlo Hites, Sonora, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Surgical stapling instruments include mechanisms for identifying and/or deactivating stapler cartridges for use with the instruments. The stapling instrument includes a drive member for actuating a staple cartridge and a locking member movable from a disabled position permitting distal translation of the drive member through a staple firing stroke, to a locking position inhibiting distal translation of the drive member through the staple firing stroke. The staple cartridge may include a switch movable in a lateral direction to either maintain the locking member in the disabled position or to allow the locking member to move into the locking position.