US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 27 for "Staple cartridges comprising trace retention features" (Ohio, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,583, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Staple cartridges comprising trace retention features" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati), Nicholas J. Ross (Franklin, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio) and Sudhir B. Patel (Wesley Chapel, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A staple cartridge comprising a cartridge body including a deck and projections extending from the deck is disclosed. When used with a surgical stapling instrument, the deck of the staple cartridge can be compressed against patient tissue before the staples contained in the...