US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Feb. 17 for "Surgical instruments with differential articulation joint arrangements for accommodating flexible actuators" (Ohio, California, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,214, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical instruments with differential articulation joint arrangements for accommodating flexible actuators" was invented by Paul Moubarak (West Chester, Ohio), William C. Ryle (Covington, Ky.) and Spencer J. Witte (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical instruments that include an articulation joint that is a configured to establish an upper pathway and a lower pathway through the articulation joint. The upper pathway and the lower pathway are parallel to each other when the surgical instrument is in an unarticulated position and...