ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,203, issued on April 29, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Jaw for surgical instrument end effector" was invented by James M. Wilson (Mason, Ohio), Randolph C. Stewart (Cincinnati), Jason R. Lesko (Cincinnati), Gregory A. Trees (Loveland, Ohio) and Kristen L. D'Uva (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including a body, a shaft assembly extending distally from the body, and an end effector configured to grasp and transmit RF energy to the tissue. The end effector includes a first jaw having a first tissue grasping feature and a second jaw. The second jaw is pivotably coupled to the first j...