US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on April 14 for "Robotic surgical system with removable portion and method of disassembling same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,446, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Robotic surgical system with removable portion and method of disassembling same" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Jacqueline C. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio), Taylor W. Aronhalt (Loveland, Ohio), David A. Bruns (Kettering, Ohio), Matthew E. Derrico (Milford, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati) and Cameron D. McLain (Deer Park, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system including a controller, a surgical instrument, and a tool. The surgical instrument is configured to interact with a patient. The surgical in...