US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 8 for "Surgical staple cartridge for supporting surgical buttress material" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,910, issued on July 8, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical staple cartridge for supporting surgical buttress material" was invented by Roanit Fernandes (Hamden, Conn.), Suresh Kumar Prema Mohanasundaram (Cheshire, Conn.), Jitendra Bhargava Srinivas (Hyderabad, India) and Matthew J. Chowaniec (Madison, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector for use with a surgical stapler includes a staple cartridge assembly movable relative to an anvil assembly. The staple cartridge assembly defines a plurality of retention slots and a cavity. The staple cartridge assembly includes a plurality of staples, a pluralit...