US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 3 for "Surgical instrument with various alignment features and method for improved disassembly and assembly" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,417, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instrument with various alignment features and method for improved disassembly and assembly" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jacqueline C. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio), Rebecca Spatholt (Cincinnati), Ellen Burkart (Cincinnati) and Robert N. Carranza (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument including an end effector that may transition between a deactivated and activated configured to transmit energy to tissue, and a proximal body attached to the end effector. The proximal body includes an e...