ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,378, issued on April 14, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Handheld electromechanical surgical system" was invented by Christopher K. Evans (Southington, Conn.) and Robert H. Knapp (Middlebury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device includes an end effector having a pair of opposing jaw members and a drive beam movable longitudinally through the pair of opposing jaw members thereby approximating the pair of opposing jaw members relative to each other. The device also includes an adapter assembly configured to selectively couple to the end effector. The adapter assembly includes an actuation assembly co...