US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on June 30 for "Surgical stapler with discretely positionable distal tip" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,356, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical stapler with discretely positionable distal tip" was invented by Jeffery Bruns (Cincinnati), Nicholas A. Wilson (Montgomery, Ohio), Nicholas Fanelli (Morrow, Ohio), Kevin Fiebig (Cincinnati), John May (Milford, Ohio) and Marissa Talia Kamenir (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first and second jaws (1404, 1406) that cooperate to clamp and staple tissue. The second jaw includes a jaw body (1408) and a distal tip (1410A, 1410B) pivotable relative to the jaw body between first and second discrete positions. The ...