US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Oct. 20 for "Surgical port features with electrically conductive portions, related devices, and related methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,300, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical port features with electrically conductive portions, related devices, and related methods" was invented by Michael Hurst (San Francisco), Sam Crews (Palomar Park, Calif.) and Bryan E. Blair (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of electrically grounding a medical instrument includes inserting a medical instrument through a channel of a surgical port extending from a first end of the surgical port to a second end of the surgical port and while the medical instrument is inserted through the channel, contactin...