US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 26 for "Surgical tool end effectors with wire routing distal wedge" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,095, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical tool end effectors with wire routing distal wedge" was invented by Eric N. Johnson (Maineville, Ohio) and Jason Alan Hill (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical tool includes an elongate shaft, an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft and including opposing first and second jaws, an articulable wrist that interposes the end effector and the distal end, the wrist including an articulation joint pivotable about an axis and a linkage mounted to the first and second jaws, a distal wedge positioned distal to...