US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on March 18 for "Compulsory compression retainers for staple cartridges with implantable adjuncts" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,106, issued on March 18, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Compulsory compression retainers for staple cartridges with implantable adjuncts" was invented by Mark Zeiner (Loveland, Ohio), Sarah Alexandra Scully (Cincinnati), Michael Vendely (Lebanon, Ohio), Heather Strang (Cincinnati), Christopher Q Seow (Cincinnati) and Madelaine Franzoni (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retainers and retainer systems for staple cartridges with implantable adjuncts are disclosed. The retainers and retainer systems enable a compressive force to be applied to implantable adjuncts on staple cartridges."

The patent...