US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Oct. 27 for "Mechanical infrastructure to support electronics in an end effector of a surgical stapling instrument" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,209, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Mechanical infrastructure to support electronics in an end effector of a surgical stapling instrument" was invented by Seth Holdmeyer (Cincinnati) and Adam Hensel (Gahanna, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes an end effector having an elongated jaw with a pair of side walls separated by a floor, which define a channel. Each of the side walls has an inner surface that defines a groove, and the groove defined by each side wall is in communication with the channel. A surgical staple reload cartridge may be received in the...