US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 8 for "Surgical stapler cartridge having tissue engagement protrusions with enlarged engagement surface" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,882, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical stapler cartridge having tissue engagement protrusions with enlarged engagement surface" was invented by Nicholas Fanelli (Morrow, Ohio), Gregory G. Scott (Cincinnati), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati) and Scott A Jenkins (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a cartridge body, a deck, an elongate slot, a plurality of pockets, and a plurality of engagement protrusions. The plurality of engagement protrusions extend from the deck and are configured to grip tissue or an adjunct material. The plurality of engagement prot...