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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2017
Applicant:
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Kevin Shaun Weadock, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Robert Rousseau, Ottsville, PA (US);
Assignee:
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/072 (2006.01); A61B 17/115 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/07207 (2013.01); A61B 17/1155 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07228 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07235 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07242 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07257 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07264 (2013.01);
Abstract
A surgical stapler having an anvil including a plurality of staple forming pockets for forming staples. The staple forming pockets include first and second staple forming cups configured to receive first and second legs of a staple respectively. The first staple forming cup within each staple forming pocket has a different depth from the second staple forming cup within that staple forming pocket.