US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 19 for "Robotic surgical assemblies including surgical instruments having articulatable wrist assemblies" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,294, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotic surgical assemblies including surgical instruments having articulatable wrist assemblies" was invented by Zachary S. Heiliger (Nederland, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument for use in a robotic surgical system includes an end effector, a housing configured to be operably coupled to an instrument drive unit, a shaft extending distally from the housing, a wrist assembly coupled to a distal end portion of the shaft, articulation cables that adjust the pitch and yaw of the end effector relative to the shaft, and a differential gear me...