US Patent Issued to Rotation Medical on Sept. 8 for "Methods and apparatus for delivering staples to a target tissue" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,881, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rotation Medical Inc..

"Methods and apparatus for delivering staples to a target tissue" was invented by Charles L. Euteneuer (St. Michael, Minn.), Rebecca McCarville (Spring Park, Minn.), Duane Frion (Brooklyn Center, Minn.), Nathaniel Zenz-Olson (Blaine, Minn.) and Diane M. Feehan (Corcoran, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for attaching a sheet-like implant to a target tissue includes a pilot member and a staple push rod. In some embodiments, the pilot member has a distal end and at least a pair of prongs extending from the distal end. The prongs are configured to form pilot hol...