US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 15 for "End effector assembly for use in a robotic surgical instrument" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,372, issued on July 15, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"End effector assembly for use in a robotic surgical instrument" was invented by Dylan R. Kingsley (Broomfield, Colo.), Crystal A. Adams (Westminster, Colo.), Jason G. Weihe (Longmont, Colo.), William R. Whitney (Boulder, Colo.), Russell W. Holbrook (Longmont, Colo.), Zachary S. Heiliger (Nederland, Colo.) and Curtis M. Siebenaller (Frederick, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector assembly of a robotic surgical instrument includes a distal segment and first and second jaw members supported by the distal segment. The distal segment defines an elonga...