U.S. Patent 7900805 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2011-03-08 and describes a “Surgical instrument with enhanced battery performance.” This patent has been cited 409 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:

An assembly including a component of a surgical instrument, such as an endoscopic or laparoscopic instrument. The assembly may comprise a package; a surgical instrument component within the package; and a power source within the package. The power source may be configured to be placed in electrical communication with the surgical instrument component. The assembly may also comprise an auxiliary power source within the package and a circuit element, where the circuit element is in electrical communication with the power source and the auxiliary power source. Link: U.S. Patent 7900805

This patent was originally filed on 2007-01-10 which gives it a processing time of 1518 days, compared to an average processing time of 1226 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is James R. Giordano of Milford Charter Twp, MI. The assistant examiner was Michelle Lopez.

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