US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 16 for "Pressure test port contained within a body of surgical instrument" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,954, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Pressure test port contained within a body of surgical instrument" was invented by William Jason Culman (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jaime G. Blackstad (San Jose, Calif.), Peter M. Herzlinger (Saratoga, Calif.) and Willard Curtis Lomax (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical apparatus includes a housing, a test port retainer, a pressure test chamber, and an image capture assembly. The housing includes a pressure test port. The test port retainer includes a test port retainer housing, a probe seal, and a liquid exclusion barr...