U.S. Patent 7845533 was awarded to Tyco Healthcare Group LP on 2010-12-07 and describes a “Detachable buttress material retention systems for use with a surgical stapling device.” This patent has been cited 547 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

Systems of releasably connecting staple line buttress material to the jaws of a surgical stapling instrument are provided. The systems include retainers configured to engage the buttress material and releasably retain the buttress material on the jaws of the surgical stapling instrument prior to stapling tissue. In certain embodiments, the retainers remain with the jaws of the instrument after stapling of tissue. In alternative embodiments, the retainers remain with the buttress material after being stapled to tissue. Link: U.S. Patent 7845533

This patent was originally filed on 2007-06-22 which gives it a processing time of 1264 days, compared to an average processing time of 1226 in the field. Tyco Healthcare Group LP has 1168 total patents. The first named inventor is Stanislaw Z. Marczyk of Stratford, CA. The primary examiner was Brian D Nash.

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