ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,155, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Jaw opening feature for surgical stapler" was invented by Rebecca J. Gettinger (Loveland, Ohio), Katherine J. Schmid (Loveland, Ohio), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio) and Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector for use with a surgical instrument includes a lower jaw, an anvil, and a resilient member. The anvil is pivotable relative to the lower jaw between a fully opened position and a fully closed position. The resilient member is configured to bias the anvil to remain in the fully opened positio...