US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on April 29 for "Reload cover for surgical stapling system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,167, issued on April 29, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Reload cover for surgical stapling system" was invented by Jeffrey Weidner (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Nicholas Humphreys (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Timothy M. Hopkins (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical stapler systems can include a jaw assembly with one jaw defining a reload support capable of receiving and firing multiple disposable reload cartridges in a single surgical procedure. The reload cartridge can be protected by a reload cover engageable therewith. The reload cover can includ...