ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,767, issued on March 11, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Handheld electromechanical surgical system" was invented by Charles R. Kollar (West Hartford, Conn.), Alexander Hart (Tolland, Conn.), Haley Strassner (Hamden, Conn.), David E. Valentine (Hamden, Conn.), James Delbo (North Haven, Conn.) and Jonathan M. Sandor (North Haven, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes an annular reload, and an anvil assembly configured to move relative to the annular reload between an open position and a preset closed position, in which the anvil assembly and the annular reload define a preset gap distanc...