US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 3 for "Distally replaceable cable systems in surgical tools" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,701, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Distally replaceable cable systems in surgical tools" was invented by JOhn Hibner (Mason, Ohio) and Thomas Remm (Milford, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes an elongate shaft, an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft, and a wrist that interposes the end effector and the distal end. The wrist including a proximal clevis included at the distal end, a pair of pivot discs rotatably coupled to the proximal clevis and providing a centerline extending through a center of each pivot disc, a distal wrist axle extending th...