US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 11 for "Control surfaces on a staple driver of a surgical staple cartridge" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,359, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Control surfaces on a staple driver of a surgical staple cartridge" was invented by Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati), Nicholas Fanelli (Morrow, Ohio), Jeffery D. Bruns (Cincinnati), Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Adam D. Hensel (Gahanna, Ohio) and Seth D. Holdmeyer (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument comprising a staple cartridge including a cartridge body, staples removably stored in the cartridge body, and staple drivers movable within the cartridge body to eject, or deploy, the staples from the cartridge body ...