US Patent Issued to AtriCure on June 23 for "Robotic assisted clip applier" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,125, issued on June 23, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).

"Robotic assisted clip applier" was invented by Frank M. Fago (Mason, Ohio) and Keith Edward Martin (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument comprising an end effector comprising a first jaw configured to be repositionable with respect to a second jaw, the first and second jaws removably mounted to an open-ended occlusion clip, the end effector configured to configured to be removably coupled to an open-ended occlusion clip with a pair of terminal ends and first and second robotic arms, and wherein the end effector includes at least one of a...