US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Sept. 2 for "Robotic surgical stapler assembly configured to use stapler reload" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,964, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Robotic surgical stapler assembly configured to use stapler reload" was invented by William A. Burbank (Sandy Hook, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical assembly includes a drive assembly and a shaft assembly. The drive assembly is detachably mountable to a surgical robot and includes roll, pitch, and clamp/fire inputs configured to drivingly couple with respective outputs of the surgical robot. The shaft assembly is mounted to the drive assembly and configured to detachably couple with a stapler reload assembly that in...