US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Stapler reload assemblies and related devices, systems, and methods" (California, Connecticut, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,373, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Stapler reload assemblies and related devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Emily Cooper (San Francisco), Heath Corbet (Campbell, Calif.), Austin C. de Maille (Manhattan, Mont.), Babak D. Jasemian (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.) and Donald F. Wilson Jr. (Trumbull, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stapler reload assembly includes a cartridge body. The cartridge body comprises a plurality of staple apertures configured to eject staples housed in the cartridge body and a staple retainer removably coupled to the cartridge body. The st...