ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,638, issued on June 10, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Drive transfer" was invented by Ben Robert Chaplin (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Oliver Grant (Cambridge, Great Britain), Keith Marshall (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nikki Priyam Su-Ling Phoolchund (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Thomas Bates Jackson (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive transfer element for transferring drive between a surgical robot arm and a surgical instrument, the drive transfer element comprising a drive transfer element recess being releasably engageable with an interface protrusion; and a drive ...