US Patent Issued to INTUITUVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on May 13 for "Tension regulator for actuation elements, and related remotely actuated instruments, systems, and methods" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,691, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTUITUVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Tension regulator for actuation elements, and related remotely actuated instruments, systems, and methods" was invented by William A. Burbank (Sandy Hook, Conn.), Gregory W. Dachs II (San Mateo, Calif.) and Bruce M. Schena (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to regulate tension of an actuation element for actuating movement of a surgical instrument includes an elastically deformable body configured to be coupled to the actuation element. The deformable body is configured to elastically deform in response to a state ...