ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,120, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ningbo Verykind Medical Device Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China).

"Staple cartridge, staple cartridge assembly, and anastomosis device" was invented by Zaihong Chen (Ningbo, China), Weiguo Fu (Ningbo, China) and Xin Yang (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a staple cartridge, a staple cartridge assembly, and an anastomosis device. A feeding groove of a staple cartridge provided in the present disclosure is arranged to extend in the first predetermined direction. Multiple staple slot groups are distributed on both sides of the feeding groove along the slot-width...