US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 14 for "Surgical staple cartridge with installation poka-yoke features" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,161, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical staple cartridge with installation poka-yoke features" was invented by Sheng Ding (Shanghai), Jie Zhang (Shanghai), Mengli Yang (Shanghai) and Junjie Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical staple cartridge includes installation poka-yoke features. The surgical staple cartridge is configured to be installed between a pair of closure plates of a surgical instrument. The closure plates are configured to push the surgical staple cartridge towards a staple anvil portion of the surgical instrument to clamp tissue between the sur...