US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on April 21 for "Flushing improvements for robotic surgical tool cleaning" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,220, issued on April 21, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Flushing improvements for robotic surgical tool cleaning" was invented by Andrew O. Crews (Maineville, Ohio) and James A. Vandewalle (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical tool that includes a plate inside of a drive housing. The drive housing is divided into an upper portion and lower portion by the plate. Extending from the drive housing is an elongate shaft. The robotic surgical tool also includes an injection port that passes a cleaning fluid into the drive housing. Inside the drive housing there is a diverter adjacent t...