US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 30 for "Powered actuation assist for an open linear stapling device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,881, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Powered actuation assist for an open linear stapling device" was invented by Fen Du (Shanghai), Hui Zhan (Shanghai) and Sridharan Varadhan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical kit includes a stapling device and a powered actuation assist detachably couplable to the stapling device. The stapling device includes an anvil half section, a cartridge receiving half section, and a firing assembly including an actuation knob movable along a length of the cartridge receiving half section. The powered actuation assist includes a motor assembly, a lead scr...