U.S. Patent 7766210 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2010-08-03 and describes a “Motor-driven surgical cutting and fastening instrument with user feedback system.” This patent has been cited 503 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 comprising a moveable cutting instrument for cutting an object positioned in the end effector, a main drive shaft assembly connected to the end effector, and a handle connected to the main drive shaft assembly. The handle includes a gear drive train connected to the main drive shaft assembly, a main motor for actuating the gear drive train, and a firing trigger such that retraction of the firing trigger causes actuation of the motor. Also, the rotational position of the firing trigger is related to the position of the cutting instrument in the end effector. Link: U.S. Patent 7766210

This patent was originally filed on 2006-01-31 which gives it a processing time of 1645 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 assistant examiner was Lindsay Low.

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