ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,579, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Features to align and close linear surgical stapler" was invented by Jason Jones (Cincinnati), Michael J. Stokes (Cincinnati), Chester O. Baxter III (Loveland, Ohio), Andrew T. Beckman (Cincinnati), Anil K. Nalagatla (Mason, Ohio) and Robert L. Koch (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapler includes an anvil half and a cartridge half. The anvil half includes an anvil channel member and an anvil surface. The cartridge half releasably couples with the anvil half and includes a cartridge channel member having a distal portion that re...