US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Oct. 28 for "Replaceable surgical scissor blades for surgical instruments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,572, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Replaceable surgical scissor blades for surgical instruments" was invented by Shinnosuke Inoue (Daly City, Calif.) and Samuel Gerard Selle (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing, a shaft extending from the drive housing, wrist arranged at an end of the shaft and including a distal clevis, an axle mounted to the distal clevis, and first and second actuation pulleys rotatably mounted to the axle and rotatable about a pivot axis extending through the axle, each actuation pulley providing an actuation b...