US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Feb. 10 for "Electrically conductive reducer device, related systems, and related methods" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,103, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Electrically conductive reducer device, related systems, and related methods" was invented by Tyler Morrissette (Niantic, Conn.), Justin Krom (Southington, Conn.) and Joseph Orban III (Norwalk, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a reducer device for a cannula comprising forming a tubular member having a proximal end opening, a distal end opening, and an interior passage extending between the proximal end opening and the distal end opening; forming a protrusion extending radially outwardly from an exterior surface of t...