US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Oct. 7 for "Actuation combiner mechanism for a surgical tool" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,624, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Actuation combiner mechanism for a surgical tool" was invented by Jose Luis de Cordoba Matilla (Malaga, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool for a surgical robotic system, the surgical tool comprising: a surgical tool grasper having a jaw operable to perform a surgical procedure; a handle coupled to the surgical tool grasper and having a lever operable to actuate the jaw; and an actuation combiner mechanism coupled to the lever and operable to combine a first actuation force input of a lever input link from the lever with a second actuati...