US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Sept. 22 for "Medical devices having compact end effector drive mechanisms with high grip force" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,797, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Medical devices having compact end effector drive mechanisms with high grip force" was invented by Raymond Yu (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector drive mechanism has first and second pulleys and first and second jaws configured as a torque-amplifying tool assemblies. Each pulley jaw pair is configured as kinematic assembly having a compact footprint that can amplify outputs to increase the grip force applied by the jaws. The end effector drive mechanism is within a pulley envelope defined by the first and se...