US Patent Issued to Taurus Endoscopy on April 8 for "Surgical staple" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,385, issued on April 8, was assigned to Taurus Endoscopy SAS (Strasbourg, France).

"Surgical staple" was invented by Guillaume Campos (Strasbourg, France), Mariel Elizabeth Bolhouse (Redwood City, Calif.) and Bruno Mutet (La Wantzenau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical staple includes multiple arms extending from a transverse connection area, each of the arms having tissue-gripping teeth and a resistance area of increased width located between the transverse connection area and the gripping area. In another aspect, a surgical staple includes two arms connected by an arcuate folding joint, with a deformation area locate...