US Patent Issued to BEIJING SURGERII ROBOTICS on Feb. 10 for "Continuum instrument and surgical robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,160, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BEIJING SURGERII ROBOTICS COMPANY Ltd. (Beijing).

"Continuum instrument and surgical robot" was invented by Kai Xu (Beijing) and Xu Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuum instrument includes at least one proximal continuum, at least one distal continuum, a drive connection part and a drive transmission mechanism. The proximal continuum comprises a proximal base disk, a first proximal stop disk, a second proximal stop disk, a plurality of proximal structural backbones, and drive backbones, the drive backbones being separately fixedly connected to the second proximal stop disk an...