US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on Nov. 11 for "Surgical stapler with self-adjusting staple height" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,360, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical stapler with self-adjusting staple height" was invented by Matthew M. Becerra (Lake Forest, Calif.), Steven E. Decker (Anaheim, Calif.), Timothy M. Hopkins (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Atal C. Patel (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Babak D. Jasemian (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapler is provided that includes a spring loaded lift that automatically adjusts a staple cartridge and/or staple formation between a range of sizes. The lift is automatically released as the staple firing me...