U.S. Patent 7810693 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2010-10-12 and describes a “Surgical stapling and cutting instrument with articulatable end effector.” This patent has been cited 519 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 that has an articulatable end effector. Various types of passive articulation joints are disclosed for interconnecting a proximal frame portion to the end effector to facilitate pivotal travel of the end effector relative to the proximal frame portion of the instrument. Link: U.S. Patent 7810693

This patent was originally filed on 2007-05-30 which gives it a processing time of 1231 days, compared to an average processing time of 1226 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is Jamison J. Float of Galloway, OH. The primary examiner was Brian D Nash.

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