US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 10 for "Surgical instruments for applying multiple clips" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,589, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical instruments for applying multiple clips" was invented by Lawrence Kerver (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Blair Hurst (San Francisco), Harsukhdeep Singh Ratia (Saratoga, Calif.) and Craig Gerbi (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument for applying surgical clips to tissue comprises an end effector having first and second jaws that are movable between open and closed positions and configured to receive first and second rows of clips in the open position. The instrument further includes an actuator cou...