US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on June 23 for "Surgical stapler having controllable shaft bias" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,111, issued on June 23, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical stapler having controllable shaft bias" was invented by Eric D. Stout (Cincinnati), Jonathan Z. Von Stein (Cincinnati) and Heather E. Dickson (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a base and a shaft extending distally from the base along a longitudinal axis. The shaft is configured to rotate relative to the base about the longitudinal axis. The surgical instrument also includes an end effector operatively coupled with the shaft. The end effector is configured to articulate relative to the shaft about an a...