US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Nov. 3 for "Mechanism for manually activated tool adjustment" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,703, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Mechanism for manually activated tool adjustment" was invented by Michael Baldwin (Los Gatos, Calif.), William A. Burbank (Sandy Hook, Conn.) and Wesley Chung Joe (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a manual drive structure having a manual drive input member and a manual drive coupling member. The medical device also includes a first tool drive member including a first motor drive input member and a second tool drive member including a second motor drive input member. The first tool drive member is coup...