US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Nov. 3 for "End of life indicators for robotic surgical instruments" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,698, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"End of life indicators for robotic surgical instruments" was invented by Austin Wise (Cincinnati), John A. Hibner (Mason, Ohio), Shinnosuke Inoue (Daly City, Calif.) and Thomas B. Remm (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing, a drive input rotatably coupled to the drive housing, and an indicator assembly arranged within the drive housing. The indicator assembly including a capstan assembly operatively coupled to the drive input, an indicator mount secured to the drive housing, and an indicator shaft extendin...