US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 11 for "Surgical instrument with dual mode end effector and modular clamp arm assembly" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,899, issued on March 11, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument with dual mode end effector and modular clamp arm assembly" was invented by Chad P. Boudreaux (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first subassembly includes a body and an ultrasonic blade. A second subassembly is configured to removably couple with the first subassembly and includes a first clamp arm and a first clamp arm actuator. The first clamp arm is configured to be located on a first side of the longitudinal axis of the body, and the first clamp arm actuator is configured to be located on a second side of the lon...