U.S. Patent 8459525 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2013-06-11 and describes a “Motorized surgical cutting and fastening instrument having a magnetic drive train torque limiting device.” This patent has been cited 279 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. The instrument comprises an end effector and a shaft connected to the end effector. The shaft comprises a drive train for powering the end effector. The instrument also comprises an electric, DC motor connected to the drive train for powering the drive train. The instrument also comprises a torque-limiting device connected between to an output pole of the motor and an input pole of the drive train. Link: U.S. Patent 8459525

This patent was originally filed on 2008-02-14 which gives it a processing time of 1944 days, compared to an average processing time of 1097 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is David C. Yates of Westchester, IL. The primary examiner was Scott A. Smith.

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