ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,128, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Method for pre-bending staple tips using an arbor plate" was invented by Gregory J. Bakos (Mason, Ohio), Brian D. Schings (Maineville, Ohio), Nicholas Fanelli (Morrow, Ohio) and Jason Rector (Maineville, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming staples between opposing jaws of a stapling device, the method including positioning a set of guide surfaces over each of a plurality of staples loaded in openings of a staple cartridge of a first jaw of the opposing jaws of the stapling device, where each staple includes a crown with staple le...