US Patent Issued to Medical Microinstruments on March 11 for "Sterile master input handle assembly for a robotic surgery system and surgical drape for a sterile master input handle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,837, issued on March 11, was assigned to Medical Microinstruments Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sterile master input handle assembly for a robotic surgery system and surgical drape for a sterile master input handle" was invented by Massimiliano Simi (Pisa, Italy) and Federico Montagnani (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile master input handle assembly includes a non-sterile manipulandum; a sterile surgical drape draping the non-sterile manipulandum; and at least one sterile accessory, suitable to form a sterile interface of the sterile master input handle assembly for the surgeon's fingers. The at least one sterile acce...