US Patent Issued to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on Oct. 28 for "Methods, systems, and devices relating to surgical end effectors" (Nebraska, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,596, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Methods, systems, and devices relating to surgical end effectors" was invented by Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Neb.), Tom Frederick (Gretna, Neb.) and Joe Bartels (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and more specifically including end effectors that can be incorporated into such devices. Certain end effector embodiments include various vessel cautery devices tha...