US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Oct. 27 for "Knife housing for surgical tool end effectors" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,257, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Knife housing for surgical tool end effectors" was invented by Benjamin D. Dickerson (Cincinnati) and Jason A. Hill (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector for a surgical tool includes opposing first and second jaws rotatably coupled to each other at a jaw pivot axis, a knife slot defined in one or both of the first and second jaws, a knife coupled to a distal end of a drive rod and longitudinally extendable into the knife slot, and a knife housing pivotably coupled between the first and second jaws at the jaw pivot axis and d...