US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on March 25 for "Compression cam retainers for staple cartridges with implantable adjuncts" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,929, issued on March 25, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Compression cam retainers for staple cartridges with implantable adjuncts" was invented by Mark Zeiner (Loveland, Ohio), Sarah Alexandra Scully (Cincinnati), Christopher 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 retainer is movable through a range of motion relative to the staple cartridge,...