ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,169, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ningbo Verykind Medical Device Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China).

"Electric endoscopic stapler" was invented by Zaihong Chen (Zhejiang, China), Songbiao Xue (Zhejiang, China) and Weiguo Fu (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of endoscopic staplers, in particular to an electric endoscopic stapler, including a housing, a driving motor, a linkage mechanism, a rotating mechanism, and an execution joint; the driving motor being disposed of in the housing; the linkage mechanism including a linkage assembly and a connecting rod, the linkage asse...