U.S. Patent 7673783 was awarded to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. on 2010-03-09 and describes a “Surgical stapling instruments structured for delivery of medical agents.” This patent has been cited 446 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 medical agent dispensing system can be provided that may be structured for use with a surgical severing/stapling instrument that is designed for severing and stapling tissue. The dispensing system may include at least one storage reservoir structured for storing at least a component of a medical agent; a gear pump casing in communication with the storage reservoir; a screw pump auger positioned within the gear pump casing capable of rotational manipulation to move the medical agent through the gear pump casing; and, at least one agent tube in communication with the gear pump casing. The agent tube may be structured for communication with a least one agent port formed in a staple cartridge of the surgical instrument for dispensing the medical agent therethrough. Link: U.S. Patent 7673783

This patent was originally filed on 2005-11-04 which gives it a processing time of 1586 days, compared to an average processing time of 1244 in the field. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has 2128 total patents. The first named inventor is Jerome R. Morgan of Cincinnati, OH. The assistant examiner was Lindsay Low.

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