US Patent Issued to Ethicon on Sept. 9 for "Applicator instruments for dispensing surgical fasteners, the applicator instruments being controlled by surgical robots" (New Jersey, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,915, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ethicon Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"Applicator instruments for dispensing surgical fasteners, the applicator instruments being controlled by surgical robots" was invented by Doug Souls (Andover, N.J.), Simon Cohn (Lebanon, N.J.), Michael Cardinale (Morristown, N.J.), Jianxin Guo (Livingston, N.J.), Mark D. Kenyon (Ringoes, N.J.), Jared Schneider (Union, N.J.), Danial Paul Ferreira (Woodbridge, Conn.), Xuelin Guo (Livingston, N.J.), Lindsay Epstein (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Michael Nordmeyer (Pittstown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dispensing surgical fasteners includes providing an ...