US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Sept. 9 for "Assembly process for tensioning elements and related systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,005, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Assembly process for tensioning elements and related systems" was invented by Niels Smaby (Palo Alto, Calif.), Amir Chaghajerdi (San Jose, Calif.), James Trevor Clark (Mountain View, Calif.) and Stephen V. Gentile (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a surgical instrument mountable to a remotely controllable manipulator configured to operate the surgical instrument includes applying a first tension to a first tensioning element, applying a second tension to a second tensioning element, and maintainin...