US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Dec. 30 for "Robotic surgical system with knife drive mechanism" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,045, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Robotic surgical system with knife drive mechanism" was invented by William S. Bartinelli Jr. (West Chester, Ohio), Matthew T. Stone (Mason, Ohio) and Benjamin D. Dickerson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an end effector, a shaft assembly extending proximally from the end effector, an instrument base, and a knife driving assembly. The end effector includes a pair of jaws and a knife member capable of actuating between a proximal and distal position. The knife driving assembly can actuate the knife member between t...