US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Dec. 2 for "Surgical anchoring systems for endoluminal access" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,889, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical anchoring systems for endoluminal access" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio) and Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical anchoring systems for use with a surgical instrument for endoluminal access are provided. The surgical instrument includes an outer sleeve defining a working channel therethrough. The outer sleeve is configured to be disposed within a first natural body lumen. A channel arm is configured to extend through the working channel and to move independently relative to each oth...