US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Oct. 7 for "Staple driver and guide assembly for circular surgical stapler" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,595, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Staple driver and guide assembly for circular surgical stapler" was invented by Austin E. Wise (Cincinnati), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio) and John S. Kimsey (Walton, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapling instrument includes an anvil defining a plurality of staple forming pockets and a stapling head assembly. The stapling head assembly includes a body, a coupling member capable of actuating the anvil relative to the body, a staple deck defining a plurality of staple openings, and a firing assembly capable of driving a plurality of st...