U.S. Patent 7810690 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2010-10-12 and describes a “Surgical stapling instrument.” This patent has been cited 287 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 stapling instrument including a staple fastening assembly with a curved cartridge device and a curved anvil. The cartridge device has at least one curved open row of staples which are formed by a staple forming face of the anvil (12). The anvil can be moved relatively with respect to the cartridge device (10) the device further includes a handle in the proximal end region of the instrument and is operatively connected to the staple fastening assembly. A flexible backbone, preferably an endoscope, is arranged between the handle and the staple fastening assembly and guides force transmitters of the moving device and the staple driving device. Link: U.S. Patent 7810690

This patent was originally filed on 2004-10-09 which gives it a processing time of 2194 days, compared to an average processing time of 1003 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is Federico Bilotti of Aprilia, Lazio. The primary examiner was Paul R Durand.

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