U.S. Patent 7815092 was awarded to Power Medical Interventions, Inc. on 2010-10-19 and describes a “Staple pocket arrangement for surgical stapler.” This patent has been cited 345 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 pocket arrangement on the anvil portion of a surgical stapler device includes pairs of staple pockets corresponding to each one of a plurality of staples to be closed. The staple pockets may have a generally triangular shape when viewed from above. Each respective staple leg is received at a longitudinal end of the staple pocket that provides a relatively wide target area for receiving the staple leg to eliminate or at least minimize the likelihood that a staple leg will miss the staple pocket due to, e.g., misalignment between a first jaw of the surgical stapler having the anvil and a second jaw of the surgical stapler having a cartridge configured to fire the staples. The staple pockets may be arranged in rows, each row of staple pockets being longitudinally offset from another row, such that each staple pocket in a first row of staple pockets is nested with a staple pocket from an adjacent row of staple pockets to make more efficient use of space on the anvil. Link: U.S. Patent 7815092

This patent was originally filed on 2006-07-27 which gives it a processing time of 1545 days, compared to an average processing time of 1218 in the field. Power Medical Interventions, Inc. has 30 total patents. The first named inventor is John E. Burbank, III of Ridgefield, WA. The primary examiner was Rinaldi I. Rada.

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