US Patent Issued to C.R. Bard on March 11 for "Surgical fasteners for articulating surgical instruments" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,765, issued on March 11, was assigned to C.R. Bard Inc. (Murray Hill, N.J.).

"Surgical fasteners for articulating surgical instruments" was invented by Nathan Stewart Cauldwell (Hope, R.I.), Augustus Felix (Cranston, R.I.), Derek Affonce (Uxbridge, Mass.) and Kevin J. Ranucci (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical fasteners for use with articulating surgical instruments are disclosed. In one embodiment, a surgical fastener may include a head, a shaft extending distally from the head, and a through bore extending through the shaft from a proximal surface of the head to a distal end of the shaft. A fastener carrier of ...