US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL ZUG SWITZERLAND on June 30 for "Ultrasonic surgical instrument and method of laterally aligning blade with clamp arm" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,383, issued on June 30, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL ZUG SWITZERLAND (Zug, Switzerland).

"Ultrasonic surgical instrument and method of laterally aligning blade with clamp arm" was invented by James Wilson (Cincinnati), Jeffrey Clark (Cincinnati), Andrew Conway (Cincinnati) and Matthew Hill (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes an end effector with an ultrasonic blade, a shaft assembly, and a body assembly. The shaft assembly has an articulation section, an acoustic waveguide with a flexible waveguide portion, an articulation band configured to drive articulation of the artic...