US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 23 for "Two-part fasteners for surgical clip appliers and surgical clip appliers for deploying the same" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,648, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Two-part fasteners for surgical clip appliers and surgical clip appliers for deploying the same" was invented by Jacob C. Baril (Norwalk, Conn.), Saumya Banerjee (Southington, Conn.) and Garrett P. Ebersole (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical clip applier includes an elongated portion, a drive shaft, and an end effector. The drive shaft extends at least partially through the elongated portion. The end effector is disposed adjacent a distal end of the elongated portion, and includes a collar and a distal housing. The collar is coupled to th...