US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on July 15 for "Surgical stapler for sensing and communicating trocar position and anvil state" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,303, issued on July 15, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical stapler for sensing and communicating trocar position and anvil state" was invented by Christopher Denzinger (Cincinnati), Monica Rivard (Cincinnati), Cory G. Kimball (Hamilton, Ohio), Matthew Corbin (Cincinnati), Laura S. Downing (Cincinnati) and Matthew D. Cowperthwait (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a circular stapler. The circular stapler includes a stapling head assembly. A trocar is positioned at least partially within the stapling head assembly. An anvil is detachably attachable to the troca...