US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 2 for "Surgical instruments with actuatable tailpiece" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,967, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instruments with actuatable tailpiece" was invented by Spencer Witte (San Francisco), Benjamin Dickerson (San Francisco), Aren Calder Hill (Mountain View, Calif.), Trent Michael Callan (San Francisco), Dillon Carey (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Stone (Mason, Ohio), Chris Birri (Cincinnati) and Reed Arenburg (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical tool includes a handle providing a plurality of drive inputs, an elongate shaft including a plurality of sliding rack gears movably nested within a corresponding plurali...