US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 21 for "Surgical staple cartridge and a surgical end effector assembly with bumps" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,531, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical staple cartridge and a surgical end effector assembly with bumps" was invented by Mengli Yang (Shanghai), Xiangchun Hong (Shanghai) and Anil K. Nalagatla (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical staple cartridge and/or a surgical end effector assembly include/includes bumps. The bumps are provided on the surgical staple cartridge and/or a staple anvil portion. The bumps are positioned and sized to limit rotation of the surgical staple cartridge and the staple anvil portion relative to each other in a closed configuration. The ...