US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 9 for "Anvil buttress attachment for surgical stapling apparatus" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,982, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Anvil buttress attachment for surgical stapling apparatus" was invented by Pawel Abramek (Berlin, Conn.), Kenneth M. Cappola (Monroe, Conn.), Matthew J. Chowaniec (Madison, Conn.) and Roanit Fernandes (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anvil buttress loading system includes an anvil assembly, an anvil buttress loading tool, and an anvil buttress. The anvil buttress is retainable on each of the anvil buttress loading tool and the anvil buttress, and is transferrable from the anvil buttress loading tool to the anvil assembly."

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