US Patent Issued to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) on Sept. 2 for "Mechanical manipulator for surgical instruments" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,960, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Mechanical manipulator for surgical instruments" was invented by Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira (Lausanne, Switzerland), Reymond Clavel (Oulens-sous-Echallens, Switzerland) and Hannes Bleuler (Buchillon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel mechanical system, based on a new cable driven mechanical transmission, able to provide sufficient dexterity, stiffness, speed, precision and payload capacity to actuate multi-DOF micro-manipulators. Besides the possibility of being used in several articulated surgical instrum...