US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on July 14 for "Pulley supports for end effector wrists" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,241, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Pulley supports for end effector wrists" was invented by Konstantin Zabotkin (Mason, Ohio), Pavel Shalakov (Blue Ash, Ohio), Andrew Crews (Cincinnati) and Joseph Mueller (South Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing having an elongate shaft extending therefrom, an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft and including opposing first and second jaws, and a wrist interposing the shaft and the end effector. The wrist includes a clevis, a pulley support mounted to the clevis at an axle having a pi...