US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on April 15 for "Illumination systems for surgical staplers" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,447, issued on April 15, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Illumination systems for surgical staplers" was invented by Matthew D. Cowperthwait (Cincinnati), Christopher Denzinger (Cincinnati), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio) and Eric Lafay (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a stapling apparatus. The apparatus includes a trocar, a stapling head assembly, and an anvil. The stapling head assembly includes one or more lights positioned on a surface of a tubular casing of the stapling head assembly, the lights extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the stapling head a...