US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Feb. 3 for "Multi-pivot, single plane articulable wrists for surgical tools" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,183, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Multi-pivot, single plane articulable wrists for surgical tools" was invented by Seth Daniel Holdmeyer (Sharonville, Ohio) and Grant Wood Nair (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical tool includes a drive housing, an elongate shaft extending from the drive housing and having an end effector arranged at a distal end of the elongate shaft, and an articulable wrist interposing the end effector and the elongate shaft, the articulable wrist including a plurality of articulation links including at least a first articulation link, a sec...