US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 4 for "Atraumatic stapling head features for circular surgical stapler" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,353, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Atraumatic stapling head features for circular surgical stapler" was invented by Christopher C. Miller (Loveland, Ohio) and Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a body, a shaft assembly, a stapling head assembly, and an anvil. The stapling head assembly includes an annular deck member, a plurality of staples, and a driver. The deck member includes a deck surface that has a curved profile defined by a curve extending from the inner diameter of the deck member to the outer diameter of the deck mem...