US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 2 for "Systems and subsystems for rolling a surgical instrument including articulation cables" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,900, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and subsystems for rolling a surgical instrument including articulation cables" was invented by William Claiborne Ryle (Cincinnati), Douglas Marriott (Cincinnati), Paul Moubarak (Cincinnati), Samantha A. Grace-Mudd (Cincinnati), Zachary Miller (Cincinnati), Michael Dixon (Cincinnati), Hannah Johnson Goebel (Cincinnati) and Shiv Wadwani (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument designed to operate with a robotic platform is disclosed. The surgical instrument assembly includes a shaft, an end effector, a knife firing subsy...