ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,130, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Surgical stapler knife motion controls" was invented by Austin E. Wise (Cincinnati) and Morgan R. Hunter (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes an end effector, a firing member movable distally to effect a firing motion at the end effector, wherein the firing member comprises a cam slot, and a lockout pawl. The lockout pawl has a cam feature receivable in the cam slot, wherein the cam slot is configured to guide the cam feature to cause a rotation of the lockout pawl between a first position where the lockout pawl ...