US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on April 22 for "Surgical tool end effectors with distal wedge slot constraint" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,842, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical tool end effectors with distal wedge slot constraint" was invented by Eric Johnson (Maineville, Ohio) and Jason Alan Hill (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical tool an elongate shaft, an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft and including opposing first and second jaws, and an articulable wrist interposing the end effector and the distal end of the shaft. The wrist includes a linkage mounted to the first and second jaws and defining a slot, a distal wedge positioned within a central portion of the wr...