U.S. Patent 8360297 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2013-01-29 and describes a “Surgical cutting and stapling instrument with self adjusting anvil.” This patent has been cited 274 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 instrument for being endoscopically or laparoscopically inserted into a surgical site for simultaneous stapling and severing of tissue includes an elongate channel that is configured to operably support a staple cartridge therein. An anvil is coupled to the elongate channel and is configured to interact therewith such that at least a mounting portion of the anvil can seatingly engage corresponding portions of the elongate channel at any one of a discrete number of predetermined locations to adjust a tissue clamping space between the anvil and the elongate channel in response to a thickness of tissue received between the elongate channel and the anvil and application of a closing motion to the anvil. Link: U.S. Patent 8360297

This patent was originally filed on 2006-09-29 which gives it a processing time of 2314 days, compared to an average processing time of 1218 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is Joshua R. Uth of Mason, OH. The primary examiner was Hemant M Desai.

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