US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on Sept. 8 for "Surgical stapling instrument having a two-position lockout mechanism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,883, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Surgical stapling instrument having a two-position lockout mechanism" was invented by Thomas M.B. Roberts (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Timothy M. Hopkins (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Quinton A. Quintana (Chino Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical stapler systems can include lockout mechanisms to restrict further movement of a jaw assembly and provide different functionality when a jaw assembly is empty and when a partially or fully fired reload cartridge is present in the jaw assembly. When the jaw ...