US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on July 7 for "Surgical stapler having a powered handle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,874, issued on July 7, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical stapler having a powered handle" was invented by Kevin Hudson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Andy Pham (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Jonathan R. Nash (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Zachary W. Gyugyi (Irvine, Calif.), Travis Bautista (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Jonathan Von Stein (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Ata Kiraz (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Eric J. Weiss (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powered handle for a surgical stapler has a drive system including an electric motor. The ...