US Patent Issued to Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute on March 18 for "Bending mechanism and surgical robotic arm including the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,162, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute (Chengdu, China).

"Bending mechanism and surgical robotic arm including the same" was invented by Xiangfei Wang (Chengdu, China), Yu Wang (Chengdu, China), Jiahua Lv (Chengdu, China) and Hailie Li (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure particularly relates to a bending mechanism and a surgical robotic arm including this mechanism. bending mechanism includes a flexible shell and a plurality of bending modules, arranged serially or in front-to-back connection. The bending modules are housed within the flexible shell. The bending modules...