US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on Nov. 18 for "Surgical stapler having a powered handle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,919, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical stapler having a powered handle" was invented by Erik D. Nelson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jonathan R. Nash (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Timothy M. Hopkins (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Kevin Hudson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Andy Pham (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Zachary W. Gyugyi (Irvine, Calif.), Joshua A. Spalding (Los Angeles) and Christian A Halvorsen (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...