US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 8 for "Surgical tool end effectors with replaceable blades" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,866, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical tool end effectors with replaceable blades" was invented by Konstantin Zabotkin (Mason, Ohio), Austin Wise (Cincinnati) and Pavel Shalakov (Blue Ash, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of replacing blades of an end effector of a surgical tool includes moving the end effector distally from an assembled state, where the end effector is rotatably mounted to a clevis, to an extended state, where an axle is dislodged from open-ended slots defined in opposing arms of the clevis. The end effector includes opposing first and second blades...