US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Aug. 12 for "Instrument carriage assembly for surgical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,354, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Instrument carriage assembly for surgical system" was invented by Bruce Michael Schena (Menlo Park, Calif.), Gregory W. Dachs II (San Francisco) and Todd Solomon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical robotic assembly configured to support, insert, retract, and actuate a surgical instrument. The medical robotic assembly includes a surgical instrument carriage configured for detachably mounting a surgical instrument to the surgical instrument carriage. The surgical instrument carriage includes a motor housing, a first o...