US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 11 for "Articulable wrist with flexible member and pivot guides" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,830, issued on March 11, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Articulable wrist with flexible member and pivot guides" was invented by William George Saulenas (Cincinnati) and Tyler N. Brehm (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An articulable wrist for an end effector includes a first linkage, a second linkage rotatably coupled to the first linkage at a first articulation joint, and a flexible member extending at least partially through a central channel cooperatively defined by the first and second linkages. A first pivot guide is rotatably coupled to the second linkage at the first articulation joi...