US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 4 for "Unclamp lockout mechanism for a surgical tool" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,389, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Unclamp lockout mechanism for a surgical tool" was invented by Robert Louis Koch Jr. (Cincinnati), Mark D. Overmyer (Cincinnati), Christopher A. Denzinger (Cincinnati) and Kris Eren Kallenberger (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing, a shaft extending from the drive housing and including an inner grounding shaft, an end effector coupled to the shaft and having opposing jaws, a firing rod extending within the inner grounding shaft and terminating at a cutting element, and an unclamp lockout mechanism provid...