US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on April 7 for "Unclamped firing lockout for linear surgical stapler" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,088, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Unclamped firing lockout for linear surgical stapler" was invented by Andrew C. Deck (Cincinnati) and Jason D. Jones (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first and second elongate member that can releasably couple together to in order to cooperate to clamp and staple tissue, a clamp lever and latch body that together can latch the first and second elongate member to clamp tissue, a firing assembly that can sever and staple clamped tissue, and a lockout assembly that can prevent firing of the firing assembly until the cl...