US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources Corportion on Dec. 16 for "Surgical stapler handle assembly having actuation mechanism with longitudinally rotatable shaft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,066, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corportion (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical stapler handle assembly having actuation mechanism with longitudinally rotatable shaft" was invented by Atal C. Patel (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jonathan Covach (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Christina N. Reed (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Gary M. Johnson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Matthew M. Becerra (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handle assembly for a surgical stapler can comprise a rotatable actuation shaft. The actuation shaft can have a first rotational orientation in which it can actuate a...