U.S. Patent 7770776 was awarded to Suzhou Touchstone International Medical Science Co., Ltd. on 2010-08-10 and describes a “Rotatable stapling head of a surgical stapler.” This patent has been cited 265 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:

The present invention provides a rotatable stapling head of a surgical stapler, which comprises a staple cartridge (1), a staple driver (2), a scalpel (3), a compression rod (4), a staple casing (5) and a rotating assembly. The above parts constitute a rotating forward mechanism which can rotatablely forward the scalpel therein. Link: U.S. Patent 7770776

This patent was originally filed on 2005-06-29 which gives it a processing time of 1868 days, compared to an average processing time of 1244 in the field. Suzhou Touchstone International Medical Science Co., Ltd. has 6 total patents. The first named inventor is Quan Chen of Sunbury, Victoria. The primary examiner was Brian D Nash.

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