ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,626, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Drive mechanisms for surgical instruments" was invented by Zachary S. Heiliger (Nederland, Colo.) and Dylan R. Kingsley (Broomfield, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument for use with a robotic surgical system includes a shaft extending distally from a housing and first and second jaw members disposed at a distal end of the shaft. The surgical instrument also includes a knife blade configured to cut tissue and a drive input configured to receive a rotational input from a robotic surgical system to drive rotation of an input shaft and translate...