US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 25 for "Surgical systems with intraluminal and extraluminal cooperative instruments" (Michigan, Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,363, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical systems with intraluminal and extraluminal cooperative instruments" was invented by Alexander Tarek Hassan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Travis Michael Schuh (Los Altos, Calif.), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio) and Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a surgical system includes a first scope device having a first portion within an extraluminal space and a second portion positioned within an intraluminal space. The first scope device transmits image data ...