US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on July 22 for "Intelligent anvil for circular surgical stapler" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,481, issued on July 22, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Intelligent anvil for circular surgical stapler" was invented by Devanathan Raghavan (Mason, Ohio), John K. Bruce (Morrow, Ohio) and Chad P. Boudreaux (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a body assembly, a shaft assembly, a stapling head assembly disposed at a distal end of the shaft assembly, and an anvil. The stapling head assembly having a deck member and a closure shaft capable of moving relative to the deck member. The anvil including a head, a shank, a biasing body, and a electronic unit having a distance ...