US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 3 for "Automated surgical staple inspection system" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,401, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Automated surgical staple inspection system" was invented by Reyhaneh Nosrati (Boston), Chad Steven Lape Sr. (Mason, Ohio), Scott A. Jenkins (Mason, Ohio), Francesca Mayhaus (Independence, Ky.), Jorge Adrian Dayer Carrillo (Cincinnati), Carlos Ivan Ramirez Martinez (Juarez, Mexico), Anu Ahuja (Raritan, N.J.) and Saman Sarraf (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated surgical staple inspection system automatically generates surgical staple inspection data characterizing a set of staples fired into a test skin by stapling device in...