U.S. Patent 7770773 was awarded to Power Medical Interventions, Inc. on 2010-08-10 and describes a “Surgical device.” This patent has been cited 268 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 device includes a first jaw and a second jaw moveable relative to the first jaw between a first position, in which the first and second jaws are aligned within a plane, and a second position, in which the second jaw is in non-parallel correspondence to the plane. The surgical device may include a surgical member, e.g., a cutting and/or stapling element, disposed within the first jaw, and a second driver configured to cause relative movement of the surgical member in a direction parallel to the plane. The first and second jaws may include a camming arrangement that is configured to move the second jaw between the first and second positions. The camming arrangement may include a channel disposed along at least a portion of one or both of the first and second jaws, a ball bearing disposed within the channel. Link: U.S. Patent 7770773

This patent was originally filed on 2005-07-27 which gives it a processing time of 1840 days, compared to an average processing time of 1244 in the field. Power Medical Interventions, Inc. has 30 total patents. The first named inventor is Michael P. Whitman of New Hope, MN. The assistant examiner was Michelle Lopez.

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