US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Feb. 24 for "Cooperative access hybrid procedures" (Ohio, Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,082, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Cooperative access hybrid procedures" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio), Alexander Tarek Hassan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Travis Michael Schuh (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a surgical anchoring system can include inserting an outer sleeve of a surgical instrument at least partially into a first natural body lumen, the outer sleeve having a working channel. The method can include inserting a channel arm of the surgical i...