US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 23 for "Surgical apparatus including a sterile adapter having mechanical lockouts" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,238, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical apparatus including a sterile adapter having mechanical lockouts" was invented by Robert E. Holop (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system comprises a sterile adapter assembly comprising a mechanical surgical instrument removal lockout and a mechanical sterile adapter assembly removal lockout. The mechanical sterile adapter assembly removal lockout is activated on a condition of a surgical instrument mounted in the sterile adapter assembly. The mechanical surgical instrument removal lockout is activat...