U.S. Patent 8016855 was awarded to Tyco Healthcare Group LP on 2011-09-13 and describes a “Surgical device.” This patent has been cited 270 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 in opposed correspondence with the first jaw. A first driver is configured to cause relative movement of the first jaw and the second jaw in a plane. The first driver is configured to engage a drive shaft rotatable about a rotation axis arranged in non-parallel, e.g., perpendicular, correspondence to the plane. The device may also include a surgical member, e.g., a cutting and stapling element, disposed within the first jaw. A second driver is configured to cause relative movement of the surgical member in a direction parallel to the plane. The second driver is configured to engage a drive shaft rotatable about a rotation axis arranged in non-parallel correspondence to the plane. Link: U.S. Patent 8016855

This patent was originally filed on 2002-03-08 which gives it a processing time of 3476 days, compared to an average processing time of 1402 in the field. Tyco Healthcare Group LP has 1168 total patents. The first named inventor is John E. Burbank, III of Ridgefield, WA. The primary examiner was Ryan Severson.

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