US Patent Issued to REVMEDICA on July 22 for "Proximal loaded disposable loading unit for surgical stapler" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,477, issued on July 22, was assigned to REVMEDICA INC. (Middletown, Conn.).

"Proximal loaded disposable loading unit for surgical stapler" was invented by C. Robert Satti III (North Branford, Conn.), Thomas G. Wenchell Jr. (Durham, Conn.) and Jeffrey M. Ott (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading unit removably loadable into a surgical instrument positioned within a body of a patient having an elongated member, first and second jaws at a distal portion and a firing mechanism movable within the elongated member to effect firing of fasteners into the tissue clamped between the first and second jaws. The loading unit ...