US Patent Issued to Shenzhen Edge Medical on Dec. 30 for "Surgical instrument, slave operating equipment, and surgical robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,092, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Shenzhen Edge Medical Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Surgical instrument, slave operating equipment, and surgical robot" was invented by Jianchen Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhongbing Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument, slave operating equipment applied in the surgical instrument, and a surgical robot having the slave operating equipment. The surgical instrument includes an end effector, a drive device, and a cable. The drive device is configured to drive the end effector to move by means of the cable. The cable includes a first pair of cables and a second pa...