US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Nov. 3 for "Insert guide members for surgical instruments, and related devices, systems, and methods" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,666, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Insert guide members for surgical instruments, and related devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Adrit Lath (Mountain View, Calif.), Adam J. Ross (Prospect, Conn.) and Robert C. Reid (Fairfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a shaft, an end effector, and a wrist coupling the end effector to the shaft. The wrist has a central channel extending along a length of the wrist. An insert guide member is positioned in the central channel. The insert guide member has an exterior lateral wall extending b...