US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 18 for "Surgical instruments having mechanisms for identifying and/or deactivating stapler cartridges" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,107, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical instruments having mechanisms for identifying and/or deactivating stapler cartridges" was invented by Matthew Wixey (San Jose, Calif.), Atal Patel (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Babak D. Jasemian (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.) and Nicholas Ragosta (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical stapling instruments include mechanisms for identifying and/or deactivating stapler cartridges for use with the instruments. The stapling instrument includes a drive member for actuating a staple cartridge and a locking member movable from a ...