US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on June 9 for "Flexible drive member attachment through additive thermal spray" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,790, issued on June 9, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Flexible drive member attachment through additive thermal spray" was invented by Austin Michael Fischer (Cincinnati), Guowei John Zhang (Cincinnati), Steve Smolik (Cincinnati) and Jeff Clark (Blue Ash, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing having a drive input mounted thereon and a shaft extending distally from the drive housing that terminates at an end effector. A knife assembly of the surgical tool includes a blade member defining a cutting edge at a distal end thereof and disposed within the end effector. The...