Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Strobl

Geoffrey Strobl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods and devices for controlling motorized surgical devices
    Patent number: 9801679
    Abstract: Methods and devices for controlling motorized surgical devices are provided. In general, the methods and devices can allow a surgical device to grasp and cut tissue. In some embodiments, the device's motor can begin providing power for grasping and/or cutting tissue in response to an output from the device's sensor, the device can adjust power provided by the motor based on whether the device is clamping tissue or is being fired, the device can adjust an amount of power provided by the motor based on an amount of user-applied force to the device's actuator and/or can control drive direction of the motor based on the amount of the force, the device can maintain a force applied to the device, the device can self-shift the motor, and/or the device can adjust an amount of power provided to the device's end effector based on a degree of the end effector's closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Trees, Eric Johnson, Chad Boudreaux, Robert Laird, Rudolph Nobis, Geoffrey Strobl, Jason Lesko, John Hibner, David Yates, David Locke, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Phillip Clauda
  • METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CONTROLLING MOTORIZED SURGICAL DEVICES
    Publication number: 20150209059
    Abstract: Methods and devices for controlling motorized surgical devices are provided. In general, the methods and devices can allow a surgical device to grasp and cut tissue. In some embodiments, the device's motor can begin providing power for grasping and/or cutting tissue in response to an output from the device's sensor, the device can adjust power provided by the motor based on whether the device is clamping tissue or is being fired, the device can adjust an amount of power provided by the motor based on an amount of user-applied force to the device's actuator and/or can control drive direction of the motor based on the amount of the force, the device can maintain a force applied to the device, the device can self-shift the motor, and/or the device can adjust an amount of power provided to the device's end effector based on a degree of the end effector's closure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory Trees, Eric Johnson, Chad Boudreaux, Robert Laird, Rudolph Nobis, Geoffrey Strobl, Jason Lesko, John Hibner, David Yates, David Locke, William Weisenburgh, II, Phillip Clauda