U.S. Patent 7770775 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2010-08-10 and describes a “Motor-driven surgical cutting and fastening instrument with adaptive user feedback.” This patent has been cited 572 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 surgical cutting and fastening instrument is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the instrument includes an end effector, a main drive shaft assembly, and a handle. The end effector comprising a cutting instrument for cutting an object positioned therein. The handle comprises a motor for actuating the shaft via a gear drive train, a firing trigger, and a run motor sensor for sensing retracting of the firing trigger. When retraction of the firing trigger is sensed by the run motor sensor, the motor is signaled to forward rotate to cause cutting of the object positioned in the end effector by the cutting instrument. The instrument may also include a reverse motor sensor for sensing a condition indicative of an end of a cutting stroke by the cutting instrument and a stop motor sensor for sensing a condition indicative of retraction of the cutting instrument. Link: U.S. Patent 7770775

This patent was originally filed on 2006-01-31 which gives it a processing time of 1652 days, compared to an average processing time of 1218 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is Jerome R. Morgan of Cincinnati, OH. The primary examiner was Rinaldi I. Rada.

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