U.S. Patent 7966799 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2011-06-28 and describes a “Method of manufacturing staples.” This patent has been cited 322 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:

A method of manufacturing staples including the steps of placing a deformable member into a mold block and overmolding a crown onto the deformable member. In various embodiments, several deformable members may be produced from an elongate wire where the deformable members can be connected by portions of the wire. In at least one such embodiment, the elongate member can then be cut to separate the deformable members to form a plurality of surgical staples or strips of surgical staples. Link: U.S. Patent 7966799

This patent was originally filed on 2007-06-29 which gives it a processing time of 1460 days, compared to an average processing time of 764 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is Christopher J. Hess of Cincinnati, OH. The primary examiner was David B Jones.

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