US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on April 14 for "Surgical stapler and staple cartridge for the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,380, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical stapler and staple cartridge for the same" was invented by Mengli Yang (Shanghai), Hong Xiangchun (Shanghai), Junjie Wang (Xuhui, China), Chunchun Liu (Shanghai) and Sheng Ding (Xuhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge body of a staple cartridge includes a tissue contact platform; a plurality of staple cavities; and a retaining pin assembly slidably arranged in an end of the cartridge body proximate to the outside. In the longitudinal direction of the staple cartridge, an outermost edge of an outermost staple cavity in at l...