US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Oct. 21 for "Surgical stapler with anvil seating detection" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,875, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical stapler with anvil seating detection" was invented by Christopher C. Miller (Loveland, Ohio) and Richard F. Schwemberger (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical circular stapler has a handle assembly, a shaft, a stapling assembly, and a firing assembly. The shaft extends distally from the handle assembly. The stapling assembly is secured to a distal end of the shaft. Longitudinal translation of the firing assembly causes the stapling assembly to drive a plurality of staples in a circular array to secure two lumens of tissue to...