US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on June 30 for "Surgical stapler with circumferential firing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,357, issued on June 30, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical stapler with circumferential firing" was invented by Timothy M. Hopkins (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Atal C. Patel (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Donald L. Gadberry (Capistrano Beach, Calif.) and Matthew M. Becerra (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapler is provided. The stapler employs circumferential channels through which staples are deployed along an arc pathway against an anvil surface. The curved channels allow staples with relatively longer legs to be used in the stapler having a sma...