US 12,070,213 B2
Surgical medical devices
Mingfei Chen, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Rhonda L. Staneart, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Emily E. Jacobs, Durham, CT (US); Gerald N. Hodgkinson, Killingworth, CT (US); Brian C. Graham, Santa Rosa, CA (US); and Monideepa Chatterjee, Hamden, CT (US)
Assigned to Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/113,811.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/313,302, filed on Feb. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0263525 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 17/072 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/07292 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/07257 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07271 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical stapling device, comprising:
an end effector including an anvil jaw member and a staple cartridge jaw member pivotally coupled to one another, the anvil jaw member and the staple cartridge jaw member being relatively movable such that the end effector is movable between an open position and a clamped position; and
a surgical buttress attached to the anvil jaw member, the staple cartridge jaw member, or both, the surgical buttress including a substrate having a thickness from 0.05 mm to 0.5 mm and a porous layer having a non-compressed thickness from 100 μm to 2000 μm.