U.S. Patent 8720766 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2014-05-13 and describes a “Surgical stapling instruments and staples.” This patent has been cited 254 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 staple including a crown and a deformable member extending from the crown, the deformable member having a notch configured to cause the deformable member to bend at the notch when the staple is deformed from a first shape into a second shape. The crown of the surgical staple, in various embodiments, further includes a forming surface, or anvil, which is configured to deform the deformable member and/or guide a distal end of the deformable member when the distal end contacts the crown. Link: U.S. Patent 8720766

This patent was originally filed on 2006-09-29 which gives it a processing time of 2783 days, compared to an average processing time of 1218 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is James W. Voegele of Cincinnati, OH. The primary examiner was Michelle Lopez.

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