US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on May 20 for "Manual release for medical device drive system" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,225, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Manual release for medical device drive system" was invented by Nicholas H. Ragosta (San Francisco) and Matthew A. Wixey (Trumbull, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device drive system can include a rotational input, a coupling member engaged with the rotational input, a first gear having an engagement feature sized and shaped to engage with the coupling member, and a second gear coupled with the first gear, the second gear coupled to a movable element. The system can have a first system state and a second system state. In th...