Abstract: A data system may adjust the input data to a machine learning model based on a change in a consent associated with a patient. The data system may detect the change in the consent associated with the patient. The data system may identify private data associated with the change in the consent. The data system may identify a machine learning model to which the private data has contributed. The data system may determine input data that has contributed to the machine learning model. The input data may include the private data. The data system may determine, based on the change in the consent associated with the private data, whether to replace the private data in the input data with replacement data. The data system may adjust the input data based on the determination of whether to replace the private data in the input data with replacement data.

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for controlling a tissue-treatment motion by a surgical instrument are disclosed.

Abstract: Patient health data and consent data may be managed. Conditional consent by a patient may be provided for utilizing their private health data in one or more of the following: the adaptation of procedures, instrument operation, system configuration, display of results and/or plans for device usage. The patient granted consent may be associated with one or more condition(s), stipulation(s), and/or limitations of the scope, duration, and/or usage of their health data. A health data management system may check that patient data is only being used in accordance with the consent data (e.g., for the agreed upon purpose(s) and for the agreed upon time).

Abstract: A surgical instrument system comprising a motor system and a control circuit is disclosed. The motor system comprises a motor and a drive train movable by the motor to actuate a firing member through a staple firing stroke. The control circuit is coupled to the motor, wherein, during the staple firing stroke, the control circuit is configured to perform a first sensory action to determine if a speed of the motor can be increased to a first target speed, monitor a result of the first sensory action, adjust a parameter of a subsequent sensory action based on the monitored result of the first sensory action, and perform the subsequent sensory action with the adjusted parameter.

Abstract: A connector for joining an end of an electrical resistance heating wire of an electrical heating cable enclosed in water-tight tubing with an end of the wire of an insulated electrical conductor comprises a heat-absorbing electrically conductive core member to receive and be clamped onto the wire ends, a rigid sleeve forming an elongate cavity to receive the core member with the wire ends fastened thereto, electrical insulation inside the sleeve between it and the core member and the wire ends, and a coupling ring fixed onto each end of the sleeve, one of the coupling rings having structures connected to it for clamping it substantially immovably onto an end portion of the cable-enclosing tubing and the other coupling ring having structures connected to it for forming a substantially water-tight joint between it and the insulated conductor.