US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on June 17 for "Drive cable accumulation systems for robotic surgical tools" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,486, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Drive cable accumulation systems for robotic surgical tools" was invented by Andrew T. Beckman (Cincinnati), Spencer James Witte (San Francisco), Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio), Benjamin D. Dickerson (San Francisco), Travis Michael Schuh (Los Altos, Calif.), 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 providing a drive input, an elongate shaft extendable through the handle and having an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft, and an ac...