US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 29 for "Firing system lockout arrangements for surgical instruments" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,911, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Firing system lockout arrangements for surgical instruments" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Chester O. Baxter III (Loveland, Ohio), Jeffrey S. Swayze (West Chester, Ohio) and Jerome R. Morgan (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical end effectors and fastener cartridges having firing lockout arrangements for preventing or limit a firing stroke when a cartridge has not been operably installed in the end effector or a spent cartridge has not been replaced."

The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2020, under Applicati...