US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on March 3 for "Forceps motion transfer assembly" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,415, issued on March 3, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Forceps motion transfer assembly" was invented by William E. Butler (Minneapolis), Jeffrey J. Nelson (Plymouth, Minn.) and Theodore C. Blus (Arden Hills, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Forceps including a frame and a motion transfer assembly to transfer forces from or more actuators to an end effector. The motion transfer assembly can include a body having a passageway, a drive shaft extending through the passageway, and a drive link. The body and the drive shaft slidable with respect to the frame, and the body rotationally fixed to the drive shaft t...