US Patent Issued to BEIJING SURGERII ROBOTICS on July 8 for "Continuum instrument and surgical robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,937, issued on July 8, was assigned to BEIJING SURGERII ROBOTICS COMPANY Ltd. (Beijing).

"Continuum instrument and surgical robot" was invented by Kai Xu (Beijing) and Xu Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuum instrument includes: at least one proximal continuum, at least one distal continuum, and a drive connection part. The proximal continuum comprises a proximal stop disk and a plurality of proximal structural backbones, the plurality of proximal structural backbones being fixedly connected to the proximal stop disk. The distal continuum comprises a distal stop disk and a plurality of distal structural backbones, t...