US Patent Issued to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus and method for mechanically coupling a motor to a rotor of a progressive cavity pump" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,915, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for mechanically coupling a motor to a rotor of a progressive cavity pump" was invented by Alexander Shechtman (Haifa, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Stanislav Katzir (Hadera, Israel) and Elad Avraham Diukman (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a proximal shaft configured to mechanically couple to a motor, a first universal joint, a middle shaft coupled to the proximal shaft via the first universal joint, a housing having a bore, a second univ...