US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Sept. 30 for "Systems to apply preload tension for surgical instruments and related methods" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,974, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems to apply preload tension for surgical instruments and related methods" was invented by Matthew Aaron Wixey (San Jose, Calif.), William Burbank (Sandy Hook, Conn.), Thomas Grosvenor Cooper (Menlo Park, Calif.), Patrick Flanagan (San Diego), Nicholas H. Ragosta (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Donald Frank Wilson Jr. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a dynamic preload tension feature for a tensioning element that actuates a distal end component of a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument i...