US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 14 for "Multi-fire stapling systems and methods for delivering arrays of staples" (California, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,207, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Multi-fire stapling systems and methods for delivering arrays of staples" was invented by Daniel J. Balbierz (Redwood City, Calif.), Pablo R. Hambly (San Mateo, Calif.), Jason S. Stewart (Redwood City, Calif.) and David Cole (Weybridge, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A staple housing includes an array of staples each in a staple delivery position or "ready position" ready to be fired into target tissue. A staple driver is advanceable to drive the ready-position staples from the staple head into the tissue using staple pushers. During use,...