US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 7 for "Robotic surgical instrument including high articulation wrist assembly with torque transmission and mechanical manipulation" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,705, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Robotic surgical instrument including high articulation wrist assembly with torque transmission and mechanical manipulation" was invented by Zachary Traina (Verona, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic electromechanical surgical instrument includes a housing, an elongated shaft that extends distally from the housing, a wrist assembly supported on the elongated shaft, an end effector coupled to the wrist assembly, a universal joint assembly supported within the wrist assembly, and cables coupled to the wrist assembly. The elongated shaft defines a longitud...