US 11,931,039 B2
Surgical buttress loading and attaching/detaching assemblies
Justin Williams, Southbury, CT (US); Stanislaw Marczyk, Stratford, CT (US); Russell Pribanic, Roxbury, CT (US); Suresh Kumar Prema Mohanasundaram, Chennai (IN); and Rajesh Palakunnath, Hyderabad (IN)
Assigned to Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on Mar. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/705,437.
Application 17/705,437 is a continuation of application No. 16/387,951, filed on Apr. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,284,896, issued on Mar. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/789,580, filed on Jan. 8, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/725,327, filed on Aug. 31, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/668,851, filed on May 9, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/668,858, filed on May 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0211376 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/072 (2006.01); A61B 17/115 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/07292 (2013.01) [A61B 17/1155 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00424 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07257 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07271 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical buttress loading assembly for use with a surgical stapling apparatus, comprising:
a surgical buttress including a tubular body and an elongate member extending from the tubular body; and
a surgical buttress applicator including a base and a handle releasably engaged with the base, the handle configured to releasably engage an elongate tubular body portion of the surgical stapling apparatus when separated from the base, the tubular body of the surgical buttress positioned within a cavity of the base, the elongate member of the surgical buttress disposed within and extending through the handle.