ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,721, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Surgical instrument assembly" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio), Nicholas J. Ross (Franklin, Ohio), Jason L. Harris (Lebanon, Ohio) and Sudhir B. Patel (Mason, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of operating a surgical instrument are disclosed herein."
The patent was filed on May 14, 2024, under Application No. 18/663,898.
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