US Patent Issued to CMR SURGICAL on Sept. 22 for "Robotic surgical instrument" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,842, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Robotic surgical instrument" was invented by Ben Robert Chaplin (Cambridge, Great Britain), Dominic Martin McBrien (Cambridge, Great Britain), Gareth Stephen Hearn (Centennial, Colo.) and Simon Roderick Grover (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a robotic surgical instrument comprising an end effector, a shaft component, a supporting body, a pulley, and a protrusion. The supporting body is connected to a distal end of the shaft component at a first end and to the end effector at a second end. The supporting ...