US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 29 for "Knife housing designs for aligning a knife with a knife cavity" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,033, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Knife housing designs for aligning a knife with a knife cavity" was invented by Austin Michael Fischer (Cincinnati) and Jeff Clark (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing, a shaft extending distally from the drive housing, and an end effector arranged at an end of the shaft. The end effector includes a knife housing having opposing distal and proximal ends and opposing left and right walls extending from the distal end toward the proximal end, the left and right walls defining a knife cavity therebetween...