US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on June 10 for "Surgical stapler having a powered handle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,582, issued on June 10, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical stapler having a powered handle" was invented by Christina N. Reed (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Matthew M. Becerra (Lake Forest, Calif.), Andrew J. McCarthy (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Scott Zimmerman (Lancaster, Calif.), Joshua M. Schober (Temecula, Calif.), Steven E. Decker (Anaheim, Calif.), Kevin Hudson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Andy Pham (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powered handle for a surgical stapler can have a drive system including an electric motor. The powered handle...