U.S. Patent 8016858 was awarded to Tyco Healthcare Group LP on 2011-09-13 and describes a “Electromechanical driver and remote surgical instrument attachment having computer assisted control capabilities.” This patent has been cited 276 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

A medical tool comprising an electromechanical driver and a surgical instrument attachment for use in invasive surgery, including a handle coupled to a flexible sheath which is in turn coupled to a surgical attachment. The handle of the driver includes the electromechanical driver and at least one processor element which controls the actions of the electromechanical driver, and therefore the application elements of the surgical attachment, based on information relayed between the processor element and remotely activatable sensor assemblies in the surgical instrument attachment. Link: U.S. Patent 8016858

This patent was originally filed on 2010-07-19 which gives it a processing time of 421 days, compared to an average processing time of 1175 in the field. Tyco Healthcare Group LP has 1168 total patents. The first named inventor is Michael P. Whitman of New Hope, MN. The primary examiner was Pedro Philogene.

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