Patent ID: 11871926
Assignee: JENEI LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A surgical apparatus, comprising:
(a) a body assembly, comprising:
(i) a handle portion, and
(ii) a shaft portion extending distally from the handle portion;

(b) an end effector comprising a staple driver, wherein the staple driver is movable relative to the shaft portion of the body assembly between an unfired position and a fired position;
(c) a staple firing actuator located on the handle portion of the body assembly;
(d) a tissue cutting actuator located on the handle portion of the body assembly;
(e) a staple containment housing that holds a plurality of unformed metal staples until the moment of dispensing the staples for forming in tissue, wherein each staple from the plurality of unformed metal staples comprises a crown, a crown face, and a pair of legs extending from the crown face, the pair of legs include a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion is a soft annealed zone having a chiseled configuration, and a staple guide secured on a free end of the staple containment housing, and wherein the apparatus produces a plurality of formed staples have legs having an out-of-plane configuration, with the leg tips symmetrically biased to arrive on opposite sides of the crown, and
(f) an anvil assembly for receiving staple tips containing at least one contiguous uninterrupted staple-forming groove of at least the length of two unformed staple widths and which is substantially the same groove depth over its entire length, the at least one contiguous uninterrupted staple-forming groove configured for forming a plurality of staples during the same firing, and wherein the anvil assembly contains at least two contiguous uninterrupted staple-forming depression grooves, and whereby the grooves have varying depths to produce formed staples of varying heights.