US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Sept. 8 for "Surgical tools with end effector redirect pulleys" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,954, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Surgical tools with end effector redirect pulleys" was invented by Mark Sheridan (Cincinnati) and Troy Richardson (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tool includes a shaft extending from a drive housing, an end effector including opposing jaws, and a wrist interposing the shaft and the end effector and including a distal clevis to which the jaws are rotatably mounted at a first axle, a proximal clevis rotatably mounted to the distal clevis at a second axle and operatively coupled to the shaft, a set of pulleys rotatably mounted to ...