ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,702, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Mechanically decoupled closure subsystem" was invented by Seth Daniel Holdmeyer (Sharonville, Ohio), Jeffrey L. Clark (Maineville, Ohio), Eric William Brunner (Cincinnati), Maria Lupp (Cincinnati), Jalen Lee Wize (Cincinnati) and Grant Wood Nair (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes an elongate shaft, an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft and including opposing jaws, and an articulable wrist interposing the end effector and the shaft and comprising a plurality of articulation links arranged in series a...