ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,329, issued on May 6, was assigned to SHANGHAI MICROPORT MEDBOT (GROUP) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Surgical robot and surgical instrument" was invented by Yuyuan He (Shanghai), Chao He (Shanghai) and Youkun Jiang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot and a surgical instrument are disclosed. The surgical instrument includes a wire transmission and an end section. The wire transmission includes a base and n transmission modules each including at least one end drive shaft, two traction elements and two guide pulleys. Each of the guide pulleys comprises a groove for receiving therein a respective one of the traction elemen...