ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,913, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).
"Method of surgical stapling" was invented by Nicholas Fanelli (Morrow, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati), Jeffery D. Bruns (Cincinnati), John K. Bruce (Morrow, Ohio), Pierre R. Mesnil (Newport, Ky.), Shannon L. Jones (Cincinnati), John W. Stodghill (Cincinnati), Gregory G. Scott (Cincinnati), Devanathan Raghavan (Mason, Ohio), John P. May (Mason, Ohio), Nicholas A. Wilson (Montgomery, Ohio), Cory G. Kimball (Hamilton, Ohio), Kristin L. Jambor (Cincinnati) and Scott A. Jenkins (Mason, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a surg...