US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 25 for "Deployable arbor sets that break away from staple cartridge" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,375, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Deployable arbor sets that break away from staple cartridge" was invented by Gregory J. Bakos (Mason, Ohio), Brian D. Schings (Maineville, Ohio), Nicholas Fanelli (Morrow, Ohio) and Jason Rector (Maineville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A staple cartridge including a tissue supporting deck and a set of arbor inserts removably coupled to the deck adjacent a staple pocket, the staple pocket being configured to hold a staple. The set of arbor inserts is configured to plastically deform the staple as the staple exits the staple pocket during a fi...