US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on Sept. 16 for "Reload shaft assembly for surgical stapler" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,769, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Reload shaft assembly for surgical stapler" was invented by Babak Jasemian (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Steven E. Decker (Anaheim, Calif.), Atal C. Patel (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Erik Nelson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew J. McCarthy (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Scott Zimmerman (Lancaster, Calif.), Timothy M. Hopkins (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Joshua M. Schober (Temecula, Calif.), Eric J. Weiss (San Clemente, Calif.), Matthew M. Becerra (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Christina N. Reed (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark O...