ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,437, issued on April 15, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Surgical stapler cartridge with 3D printable features" was invented by Brian D. Schings (Maineville, Ohio), Gregory J. Bakos (Mason, Ohio), Zhifan F. Huang (Mason, Ohio), Luke C. Ice (Garrett, Ind.), Sudhir Patel (Cincinnati), Jason L Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Pravin S. Pawar (Islampur, India) and Prabakaran Ravichandran (Mayiladuthurai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a staple, a body, a staple driver, and an alignment feature. The alignment feature is coupled to or formed with at least one of the staple driver or an inner ...