ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,617, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Deployment mechanism for surgical instruments" was invented by Amarsinh D. Jadhav (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes an end effector assembly and a deployment mechanism for deploying a proximal hub associated with an energizable member between proximal and distal positions. The deployment mechanism includes a rotatable shaft, a cord including a proximal end engaged to the rotatable shaft and a distal end engaged to the proximal hub, a biasing member positioned to bias the proximal hub towards the distal position, and ...