Method for creating a flexible staple line

A method for creating a flexible fastener line is disclosed. The fastener line comprises fasteners oriented in directions which are transverse or oblique to a tissue incision created by a cutting member. The fasteners can translate and/or rotate within the tissue when the tissue is stretched thereby creating flexibility within the tissue.

Surgical instruments with separable motors and motor control circuits

A surgical system is disclosed including a motor cartridge and a drive assembly. The motor cartridge is removably positionable in an enclosure and removably couplable with the surgical system. The motor cartridge includes a first motor including a first drive shaft, a first motor control circuit in electrical communication with the first motor, a second motor including a second drive shaft, and a second motor control circuit in electrical communication with the second motor. The drive assembly is removably couplable with the motor cartridge. The drive assembly includes a first rotatable input configured to be driven by the first drive shaft, a second rotatable input configured to be driven by the second drive shaft, a first rotatable output configured to provide a first control motion, a second rotatable output configured to provide a second control motion, and a third rotatable output configured to provide a third control motion.

SURGICAL STAPLER HAVING MOTOR CONTROL BASED ON A DRIVE SYSTEM COMPONENT

A surgical stapler. The surgical stapler includes a drive system, an electric motor, a battery and a control system. The drive system includes a movable drive member. The electric motor is mechanically coupled to the drive system. The battery is electrically couplable to the electric motor. The control system is electrically connected to the electric motor and includes an accelerometer. The control system is configured to control a force applied to the drive system based on an acceleration of the movable drive member.

Deposition of organic films

Processes are provided herein for deposition of organic films. Organic films can be deposited, including selective deposition on one surface of a substrate relative to a second surface of the substrate. For example, polymer films may be selectively deposited on a first metallic surface relative to a second dielectric surface. Selectivity, as measured by relative thicknesses on the different layers, of above about 50% or even about 90% is achieved. The selectively deposited organic film may be subjected to an etch process to render the process completely selective. Processes are also provided for particular organic film materials, independent of selectivity.

Plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) of SiN using silicon-hydrohalide precursors

Methods for forming silicon nitride films are provided. In some embodiments, silicon nitride can be deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD), such as plasma enhanced ALD. One or more silicon nitride deposition cycle comprise a sequential plasma pretreatment phase in which the substrate is sequentially exposed to a hydrogen plasma and then to a nitrogen plasma in the absence of hydrogen plasma, and a deposition phase in which the substrate is exposed to a silicon precursor. In some embodiments a silicon hydrohalide precursors is used for depositing the silicon nitride. The silicon nitride films may have a high side-wall conformality and in some embodiments the silicon nitride film may be thicker at the bottom of the sidewall than at the top of the sidewall in a trench structure. In gap fill processes, the silicon nitride deposition processes can reduce or eliminate voids and seams.

SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD

A substrate processing apparatus with a reaction chamber and a substrate holder constructed and arranged to hold at least one substrate in said reaction chamber is provided. A first and second gas injector provides a process gas to the interior of the reaction chamber from a source pipe. A gas control system provides a flow of process gas from the source pipe to the first injector while restricting a flow of the same process gas from the source pipe to the second injector.

Superelastic medical instrument

Certain aspects relate to a superelastic medical instrument that of bending elastically through the tortuous pathways of an endoscope, returning to a straight shape upon deployment from the endoscope, and deploying straight along the axis of the end of the bronchoscope (within a tolerated margin) to distances of 2 cm or more.

Systems and methods for enforcing privacy-respectful, trusted communications

Systems, computer-readable media, and methods for improving data privacy/anonymity and data value, wherein data related to a data subject can be used and stored, while minimizing re-identification risk by unauthorized parties and enabling data related to the data subject to be disclosed to an authorized party by granting access only to the data relevant to that authorized party's purpose, time period, place and/or other criterion via the obfuscation of specific data values. The techniques described herein maintain this level of privacy/anonymity, while still empowering Data Subjects, e.g., consumers or customers of such authorized parties, e.g., business entities, by enabling them to request or specify their desired level of engagement with such business entities. Data Subjects may then receive privacy-respectful, trusted communication, e.g., advertising materials, based on their inclusion in dynamically changing cohorts or microsegments (“MSegs”) of individuals sharing similar characteristics and having a sufficient size to satisfy, e.g., “k-anonymity” requirements.

System and method for artificial agent based cognitive operating rooms

An artificial agent based cognitive operating room system and a method thereof providing automated assistance for a surgical procedure are disclosed. Data related to the surgical procedure from multiple data sources is fused based on a current context. The data includes medical images of a patient acquired using one or more medical imaging modalities. Real-time quantification of patient measurements based on the data from the multiple data sources is performed based on the current context. Short-term predictions in the surgical procedure are forecasted based on the current context, the fused data, and the real-time quantification of the patient measurements. Suggestions for next steps in the surgical procedure and relevant information in the fused data are determined based on the current context and the short-term predictions. The suggestions for the next steps and the relevant information in the fused data are presented to an operator.

Data processing systems for identifying and modifying processes that are subject to data subject access requests

In particular embodiments, in response a data subject submitting a request to delete their personal data from an organization's systems, the system may: (1) automatically determine where the data subject's personal data is stored; (2) in response to determining the location of the data (which may be on multiple computing systems), automatically facilitate the deletion of the data subject's personal data from the various systems; and (3) determine a cause of the request to identify one or more processing activities or other sources that result in a high number of such requests.