US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 26 for "Circularity systems and methods for high articulation surgical tools" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,030, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Circularity systems and methods for high articulation surgical tools" was invented by John A. Hibner (Mason, Ohio), Mark A. Davison (Maineville, Ohio), Konstantin Zabotkin (Mason, Ohio), Thomas B. Remm (Cincinnati), Veaceslav Arabagi (Cambridge, Mass.), Lesley Wang (Braintree, Mass.), Grace Elizabeth Olsen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Robert Andrew Desanti (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of replacing a consumable of a surgical tool includes securing the surgical tool, which includes a drive housing, an elongate shaft, an end effec...