US Patent Issued to ACUSURGICAL, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER on July 8 for "Mechanism for handling a surgical instrument" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,343, issued on July 8, was assigned to ACUSURGICAL (Montpellier, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER (Montpellier, France).

"Mechanism for handling a surgical instrument" was invented by Christoph Spuhler (Montpellier, France), Yassine Haddab (Montpellier, France), Philippe Poignet (Gignac, France), Antoine Morel (Montpellier, France) and Alonso Sanchez (Juvignac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation mechanism for a surgical instrument (100) includes a sleeve (202) configured to receive the surgical instrument and including one or more parts (208, 210, 226), with st...