US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 3 for "Surgical stapling device with reloadable cartridge" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,088, issued on June 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical stapling device with reloadable cartridge" was invented by Syed Sarfraz Ahamed (Shanghai) and Xini Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapling device includes a removable or releasable cartridge assembly. The surgical stapling device and the cartridge assembly include engagement members for releasably securing a thrust bar of the stapling device to a knife assembly of the cartridge assembly. The stapling device also includes structure to prevent the knife assembly from being disengaged from a cartridge body of the cartridge assembly...