US 12,324,580 B2
Method of powering and communicating with a staple cartridge
Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Hillsboro, OH (US); Patrick L. Creamer, New Orleans, LA (US); Shane R. Adams, Lebanon, OH (US); and Jason L. Harris, Lebanon, OH (US)
Assigned to Cilag GmbH International, Zug (CH)
Filed by Cilag GmbH International, Zug (CH)
Filed on Feb. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/186,273.
Prior Publication US 2022/0273307 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/072 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/07207 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00084 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07257 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07271 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07278 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07285 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
seating a staple cartridge in a jaw of a surgical stapling instrument, the staple cartridge comprising a sensor array, a control system processor and a temperature sensor which senses a temperature of the staple cartridge;
clamping patient tissue against the staple cartridge;
sensing a property of the patient tissue with the sensor array and generating sensed tissue data indicative thereof, one or both of the sensed property or the generating of the sensed tissue data being affected by the temperature of the staple cartridge;
processing the sensed tissue data with the control system processor to generate processed data, heat being imparted to the staple cartridge as a result of one or more of the sensing, generating or processing;
sensing the temperature of the staple cartridge with the temperature sensor, the temperature of the staple cartridge being related to one or more of the sensing, generating of sensed tissue data or processing, and generating sensed temperature data indicative thereof;
modifying one or more of the sensing of the property, the generating of the sensed tissue data or the processing thereof as a function of the sensed temperature data to regulate the heat generated as a result thereof and imparted to the staple cartridge; and
transmitting said processed data to the surgical stapling instrument.