Patent ID: 8740919

Claim:
A device for dispensing surgical fasteners inside a body and generating marks outside the body indicating where said surgical fasteners have been dispensed inside the body, said device comprising: a first member having a surgical fastener dispenser with a surgical fastener dispenser opening at a distal end thereof adapted for dispensing surgical fasteners; a plurality of surgical fasteners loaded in series in said surgical fastener dispenser for being dispensed one at a time from said surgical fastener dispenser opening, wherein said surgical fastener dispenser includes a surgical fastener advancer that urges said surgical fasteners distally toward said surgical fastener dispenser opening; a second member coupled with said first member, said second member having a distal end that opposes said surgical fastener dispenser opening; a marking assembly secured to the distal end of said second member, wherein said marking assembly is moveable away from and toward said surgical fastener dispenser opening, and wherein said marking assembly is adapted for generating marks on an external surface that mirror the location of each said surgical fastener dispensed from said surgical fastener dispenser opening at the distal end of said first member.