U.S. Patent 7950561 was awarded to Tyco Healthcare Group LP on 2011-05-31 and describes a “Structure for attachment of buttress material to anvils and cartridges of surgical staplers.” This patent has been cited 347 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 surgical stapler is provided having a pair of jaws including a staple containing cartridge and an anvil. Buttress material is releasable affixed to the staple containing cartridge and the anvil. One of the jaws includes a pair of longitudinal projections at a first end of the jaw and configured to frictionally engage corresponding slots in a first end the buttress material. One of the jaws includes a post at a second end of the jaw. The buttress material includes a hole in a second end of the buttress material for receipt of the post. A buttress material including at least one aperture for receipt of the at least one projection at a first end of jaws and a tab configured to engage the at least one jaw at a second end thereof is also provided. Link: U.S. Patent 7950561

This patent was originally filed on 2009-04-06 which gives it a processing time of 785 days, compared to an average processing time of 1080 in the field. Tyco Healthcare Group LP has 1168 total patents. The first named inventor is Ernie Aranyi of Easton, PA. The primary examiner was Scott A. Smith.

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