ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,584, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Robotically-controlled end effector" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jerome R. Morgan (Cincinnati), Jeffrey S. Swayze (West Chester, Ohio) and James R. Giordano (Milford, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a surgical instrument with a robotics system, a memory device and an end effector having an elongate channel, knife position sensor(s) and a firing bar coupled to a knife. In response to drive motions initiated by the robotics system, the firing bar may translate within the elongate ch...