US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 20 for "Surgical instrument with multi-functioning trigger" (Ohio, California, Washington, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,723, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument with multi-functioning trigger" was invented by Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio), Benjamin M. Boyd (Fairborn, Ohio), Paul F. Riestenberg (North Bend, Ohio), Craig N. Faller (Batavia, Ohio), Allison Hamilton (Cincinnati), Patrick J. Swindon (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christopher J. Chermside-Scabbo (St. Louis), Kevin L. Houser (Springboro, Ohio), David J. Cagle (Cincinnati), Geoffrey S. Strobl (Williamsburg, Ohio), Benjamin J. Danziger (Kenmore, Wash.) and Rudolph H. Nobis (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instru...