US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 24 for "Surgical stapling device with floating staple cartridge" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,093, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Surgical stapling device with floating staple cartridge" was invented by John Beardsley (Wallingford, Conn.) and Stanislaw Kostrzewski (Newton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical stapling device includes tool assembly having an anvil assembly and a cartridge assembly including a cartridge channel and a staple cartridge supported within the cartridge channel. The cartridge channel has a pair of spaced sidewalls and a bottom wall. The cartridge assembly includes compression strips that are supported on upper edges of the side walls and are positioned ...