US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 16 for "Routing mechanisms for surgical instruments, and related devices, systems, and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,153, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Routing mechanisms for surgical instruments, and related devices, systems, and methods" was invented by William J. Park (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas G. Cooper (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a surgical instrument comprises a shaft and an actuation member extending through a bore of the shaft and operably coupled to an end effector. A sleeve is disposed around the actuation member and within the bore of the shaft. A flux conduit configured to transmit a surgical flux to the en...