US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Sept. 23 for "Surgical instrument with sensor aligned cable guide" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,713, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical instrument with sensor aligned cable guide" was invented by Ashwinram Suresh (San Jose, Calif.), Grant M. Kadokura (San Diego) and Andrew C. Waterbury (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control cables in a surgical instrument are kept parallel to the instrument's longitudinal axis to prevent transverse forces from the cables being sensed by a transverse force sensor in the instrument. A surgical instrument includes an elongated hollow shaft having a longitudinal center axis. Multiple cables extend within the sh...