U.S. Patent 7837080 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2010-11-23 and describes a “Surgical stapling instrument with device for indicating when the instrument has cut through tissue.” This patent has been cited 429 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:

Circular stapling instruments for cutting and applying one or more surgical staples to tissue are disclosed. The instruments include various forms of feedback systems designed to provide at least one mode of feedback to the surgeon when the knife has cut through tissue clamped between a staple cartridge and an anvil portion. Link: U.S. Patent 7837080

This patent was originally filed on 2008-09-18 which gives it a processing time of 796 days, compared to an average processing time of 1097 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is Richard F. Schwemberger of Cincinnati, OH. The primary examiner was Paul R Durand.

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