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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2024
Cilag Gmbh International, Zug, CH;
Nicholas Fanelli, Morrow, OH (US);
Kevin M. Fiebig, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jeffery D. Bruns, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John K. Bruce, Morrow, OH (US);
Frederick E. Shelton, Iv, Hillsboro, OH (US);
John W. Stodghill, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Shannon L. Jones, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Pierre R. Mesnil, Newport, KY (US);
Cilag GmbH International, Zug, CH;
Abstract
An apparatus includes a jaw body, an anvil surface defined by the jaw body, and an elongate slot extending through the anvil surface and along a longitudinal axis of the jaw body. The apparatus further includes a first longitudinal row of staple forming pockets disposed on the anvil surface and configured to form a plurality of first staples such that first legs of each formed first staple are laterally aligned with each other. The apparatus also includes a second longitudinal row of staple forming pockets disposed on the anvil surface laterally outwardly of the first longitudinal row of staple forming pockets relative to the longitudinal axis, and configured to form a plurality of second staples such that second legs of each formed second staple skew laterally away from a second crown of the respective formed second staple.