US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Jan. 20 for "Surgical systems for independently insufflating two separate anatomic spaces" (Michigan, Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,563, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical systems for independently insufflating two separate anatomic spaces" was invented by Alexander Tarek Hassan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Travis Michael Schuh (Los Altos, Calif.), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio) and Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a surgical system includes a first scope device, a first instrument, a second scope device, and a second instrument. The first scope device has a first portion configured to be inserted into an extralumina...