Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Surgical end effector having buttress retention features
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Application No.: US14851762Application Date: 2015-09-11
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Publication No.: US10856866B2Publication Date: 2020-12-08
- Inventor: Frederick E. Shelton, IV , Jeffrey S. Swayze , Thomas W. Huitema , Jerome R. Morgan
- Applicant: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US PR Guaynabo
- Assignee: Ethicon LLC
- Current Assignee: Ethicon LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PR Guaynabo
- Main IPC: A61B17/68
- IPC: A61B17/68 ; A61B17/068 ; A61B50/30 ; A61B17/072 ; A61B17/10 ; A61B18/14 ; A61B17/064 ; A61B17/115 ; A61B90/00 ; A61B17/00 ; A61B18/00 ; A61B17/29

Abstract:
A piece of buttress material and an end-effector of a surgical instrument including features which can aid a surgeon in properly and quickly attaching the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In various embodiments, a piece of buttress material can include retention features which can be engaged with portions of an end-effector to releasably retain the piece of buttress material to at least a portion of the end-effector. Similarly, an end-effector can include features configured to engage portions of a piece of buttress material to releasably retain the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In at least one embodiment, more than one piece of buttress material can be releasably retained to an end-effector.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160000442A1 SURGICAL END EFFECTOR HAVING BUTTRESS RETENTION FEATURES Public/Granted day:2016-01-07
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