US Patent Issued to CONAVI MEDICAL on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus and method for controlling an end-effector assembly" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,010, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CONAVI MEDICAL INC. (North York, Canada).

"Apparatus and method for controlling an end-effector assembly" was invented by Eric Butt (Orange, Conn.), Jeff Ransden (Fairfield, Conn.), Alexander Shvartsberg (Oakville, Canada) and Reiza Rayman (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling an end-effector assembly is provided. The apparatus includes a elongated element configured to engage the end-effector assembly and a drive assembly. A first motion transfer mechanism is disposed at an end of the elongated element. The first motion transfer mechanism is configured to transfe...