ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,345, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Method for implementing a staple system" was invented by Jason M. Rector (Maineville, Ohio), Michael J. Vendely (Lebanon, Ohio), Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Ryan W. McGhee (Cincinnati), Benjamin A. Roll (Cincinnati), Shashi S. Pathak (Mason, Ohio), Shannon L. Jones (Cincinnati) and Stefan Beck (Niederdorf, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a staple cartridge includes forming first staples with a first alloy, and forming second staples with a second alloy that is different t...