US Patent Issued to Shenzhen Edge Medical on July 8 for "Surgical instrument, slave operating device, and surgical robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,997, issued on July 8, was assigned to Shenzhen Edge Medical Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Surgical instrument, slave operating device, 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, a slave operation device using the surgical instrument, and a surgical robot which has the slave operation device. The surgical instrument includes an end effector, a first pair of cables, and a second pair of cables, a distal end of the first pair of cables is arranged at an executive component of the end effector, and said pair of cables is used ...