US Patent Issued to MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS on June 16 for "Sterile adapter for a robotic surgery system, assembly, system and method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,633, issued on June 16, was assigned to MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sterile adapter for a robotic surgery system, assembly, system and method" was invented by Massimiliano Simi (Pisa, Italy) and Giorgio Lazzari (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile adapter for a robotic surgery system includes a frame, a proximal coupling device suitable to form a connection with a non-sterile robotic manipulator system, a distal cavity suitable to form a connection with a surgical instrument suitable to perform robotic surgery to a patient anatomy, and a membrane having a proximal non-sterile side and a distal ...