US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on May 20 for "Staple cartridge for a surgical instrument" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,130, issued on May 20, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Staple cartridge for a surgical instrument" was invented by Matthew Wixey (San Jose, Calif.) and Atal Patel (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a staple cartridge for a surgical instrument, such as a tissue sealing instrument. The staple cartridge includes a housing and one or more staple assemblies within the housing. The staple assemblies each include one or more staple pushers and associated staples. The staple pushers and housing include coupling elements configured to cooperate with ea...