US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 4 for "Anvil comprising an arrangement of forming pockets proximal to tissue stop" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,317, issued on March 4, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Anvil comprising an arrangement of forming pockets proximal to tissue stop" was invented by Disha V. Estera (Cincinnati), Michael J. Stokes (Cincinnati), Anil Krishna Nalagatla (Mason, Ohio), Adam D. Hensel (Gahanna, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Laura S. Downing (Montgomery, Ohio) and Shannon L. Jones (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapling assembly is disclosed. The assembly can include a cartridge body having cavities defined therein forming a pattern of openings in the deck of the cartridge body. The pattern can ...