US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 8 for "Cutting mechanism with constant-force retraction and bailout" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,902, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Cutting mechanism with constant-force retraction and bailout" was invented by Austin Michael Fischer (Cincinnati), Christopher William Birri (West Chester, Ohio) and Reed Arenburg (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a drive housing, a drive input rotatably mounted to a bottom of the drive housing, a capstan assembly arranged within the drive housing and operatively coupled to the drive input such that rotation of the drive input correspondingly actuates the capstan assembly, a longitudinally driven gear engageable wit...