US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 4 for "Maintaining cable routing in cable-actuated surgical tools" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,460, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Maintaining cable routing in cable-actuated surgical tools" was invented by Austin Michael Fischer (Cincinnati) and Christopher William Birri (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing, a drive input rotatably mounted to a bottom of the drive housing, a capstan assembly arranged within the drive housing and operatively coupled to the drive input such that rotation of the drive input correspondingly actuates the capstan assembly, a static actuation limiter arranged within the drive housing, and a dynamic...