US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 11 for "Surgical instruments with articulating shafts" (Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,384, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instruments with articulating shafts" was invented by William A. Olson (Lebanon, Ohio), Jeffrey D. Messerly (Cincinnati), Daniel W. Price (Loveland, Ohio), Kevin L Houser (Springboro, Ohio), Craig N. Faller (Batavia, Ohio), William D. Dannaher (Cincinnati), Sora Rhee (Spring Mills, Pa.) and Tylor C. Muhlenkamp (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to end effectors. An end effector includes an outer shaft extending along a longitudinal axis and an inner shaft partially located within the outer shaft. T...