U.S. Patent 7934631 was awarded to Barosense, Inc. on 2011-05-03 and describes a “Multi-fire stapling systems and methods for delivering arrays of staples.” This patent has been cited 307 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 staple housing includes an array of staples each in a staple delivery position or “ready position” ready to be fired into target tissue. A staple driver is advanceable to drive the ready-position staples from the staple head into the tissue using staple pushers. During use, the staples in the ready positions are simultaneously fired into the target tissue using the staple pushers, forming an array of staples in the target tissue. After the array has been fired, one or more feed mechanisms within the staple housing advance a second group of staples from one or more staple storage locations into the ready positions in preparation for firing of the second group of staples. Link: U.S. Patent 7934631

This patent was originally filed on 2008-11-10 which gives it a processing time of 904 days, compared to an average processing time of 1097 in the field. Barosense, Inc. has 21 total patents. The first named inventor is Daniel J. Balbierz of Redwood City, CA. The primary examiner was Scott A. Smith.

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