US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 2 for "Dummy cartridge with load cells for measuring tissue thickness and indicating cartridge selection" (Ohio, Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,880, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Dummy cartridge with load cells for measuring tissue thickness and indicating cartridge selection" was invented by Gregory Scott (Fort Collins, Colo.), Bradley A. Arnold (Mason, Ohio), Mallory Schroeder (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Reese (Cincinnati), Shane Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), Marissa Talia Kamenir (Cincinnati), Carolyn Williams (Cincinnati), Patrick M Schleitweiler (West Chester, Ohio), Dhruv Patel (Hudson, Ohio), Nicholas William Seipelt (Milford, Ohio) and Karen Averbeck (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector of a surgical in...