US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Dec. 2 for "Clip retention for surgical clip applier" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,902, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Clip retention for surgical clip applier" was invented by Michael J. Stokes (Cincinnati), Gregory G. Scott (Cincinnati), Michael A. Murray (Bellevue, Ky.), Ryan J. Laurent (Loveland, Ohio) and Disha V. Labhasetwar (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical clip applier is provided that includes first and second jaws on a distal end of an elongate shaft, a clip advancing assembly extending through the shaft and configured to advance a distal-most clip from a plurality of clips in the shaft into the first and second jaws. The jaws have oppose...