US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Jan. 28 for "Force transmission mechanism for surgical instrument, and related systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,893, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Force transmission mechanism for surgical instrument, and related systems and methods" was invented by Mark A. Diel (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument may comprise a chassis, a shaft coupled to the chassis at the proximal end of the shaft, an end effector coupled to the shaft at the distal end of the shaft, a force transmission mechanism coupled to the chassis, and an actuation element connected between a lever arm of the force transmission mech...