ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,833, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Apparatus for endoscopic procedures" was invented by Stanislaw Kostrzewski (Newton, Conn.), Ernest Aranyi (Easton, Conn.) and Paul Scirica (Huntington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to a surgical system with an end effector. The end effector may include a drive beam, an anvil assembly, and a cartridge assembly movable in relation to the anvil assembly between an open position and a clamped position. The cartridge assembly includes a cartridge body, staples supported within the cartridge body, and an actuation sled assembly. The actu...