U.S. Patent 7832611 was awarded to The Invention Science Fund I, LLC on 2010-11-16 and describes a “Steerable surgical stapler.” This patent has been cited 464 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:

Embodiments include a surgical device and a method. An embodiment of the surgical instrument includes at least one grasping jaw, the at least one grasping jaw being adapted to deliver surgical staples by a force generated from a force generator mechanism that is contained within the at least one grasping jaw or is in a proximity to the at least one grasping jaw. Another embodiment includes at least one grasping jaw, at least one delivery mechanism adapted to deliver surgical fasteners, the delivery mechanism being located in a proximity to or contained within the at least one grasping jaw, the surgical fasteners containing at least one shape-transforming material, at least one sensor, at least one chemical tissue sealant and at least one cutter. A method includes: grasping a body organ/tissue with at least one grasping jaw, adjusting a configuration of the grasping in response to a signal or a datum or an image, and releasing a surgical staple/fastener in response to the signal, datum or image. Link: U.S. Patent 7832611

This patent was originally filed on 2007-05-16 which gives it a processing time of 1280 days, compared to an average processing time of 1226 in the field. The Invention Science Fund I, LLC has 1297 total patents. The first named inventor is Michael A. Smith of San Jose, CA. The primary examiner was Scott A Smith.

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