US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on March 25 for "Devices and methods for crimp interface for cable tension sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,014, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for crimp interface for cable tension sensor" was invented by Lizmarie Comenencia Ortiz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jason Miao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Moreira Ridsdale (Saratoga, Calif.), Harsukhdeep S. Ratia (Foster City, Calif.), Sharathchandra Somayaji (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Zhou Ye (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device comprises an end effector, a mechanical structure, a connector, and a force sensor unit. The connector extends from a drive component of the mechanical structure to th...