US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 8 for "Method of applying a buttress to a surgical stapler end effector" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,899, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method of applying a buttress to a surgical stapler end effector" was invented by Michael J. Vendely (Lebanon, Ohio), Trevor J. Barton (Cincinnati), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio), Emily A. Schellin (Cincinnati), Prudence A. Vulhop (Warsaw, Ind.), Steven G. Hall (Cincinnati), Victoria Dalessandro (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Jackie Donners (Pennington, N.J.), Mark D. Timmer (Jersey City, N.J.), Rao S. Bezwada (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Aidan Craigwood (Cambridge, Great Britain), Caroline Hagerman (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ashley Easter (Cambridge, Great Britain), K...