US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Feb. 24 for "Sled retention and alignment features for surgical stapler" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,094, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Sled retention and alignment features for surgical stapler" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (New Vienna, Ohio), Nicholas Fanelli (Morrow, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati), John P. May (Mason, Ohio) and Nicholas A. Wilson (Montgomery, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sled (182) for a surgical stapler, the sled including: a base, a plurality of rails, a first detent, and a second detent. The base being configured to translate distally relative to a jaw of the surgical stapler through a firing stroke to eject a plurality of staples into...