ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,549, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Self-winding cable surgical instruments" was invented by Eric N. 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 includes a handle having a plurality of drive inputs rotatably mounted thereto, an elongate shaft extending through the handle and having an end effector arranged at a distal end thereof, and a plurality of drive members extending along the shaft to the end effector. A plurality of input stacks are arranged within the handle and operatively coupled to the plurality of d...