US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 22 for "Robotic surgical system with instrument bailout and lockout features" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,836, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Robotic surgical system with instrument bailout and lockout features" was invented by Austin M. Fischer (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an end effector, a shaft assembly, an instrument base, and a bailout assembly. The instrument base includes at least one input assembly capable of engaging an output assembly of a robotic arm. The bailout assembly includes an actuating body and a driving assembly. The actuating body is capable of actuating relative to instrument base from a pre-bailout position, an engaged position...