US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Oct. 28 for "Surgical system instrument sterile adapter" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,611, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical system instrument sterile adapter" was invented by Robert E. Holop (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anthony K. McGrogan (San Jose, Calif.) and Craig R. Ramstad (Minden, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile drape comprises a plurality of sleeves and a plurality of sterile adapters each at a distal end of a corresponding drape sleeve. Each sterile adapter includes a housing configured to receive a distal face of an instrument manipulator having a plurality of manipulator actuator outputs, a membrane interface at a distal end of the ...