US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 27 for "Locking arrangements for detachable shaft assemblies with articulatable surgical end effectors" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,584, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Locking arrangements for detachable shaft assemblies with articulatable surgical end effectors" was invented by Jerome R. Morgan (Cincinnati), Chester O. Baxter III (Loveland, Ohio), Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio) and Gary W. Knight (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument. In one form, the surgical instrument includes a housing that has an interchangeable shaft assembly removably attached thereto. The interchangeable shaft assembly includes an elongate shaft that has a surgical end effector operably coupled...