US Patent Issued to MOMENTIS SURGICAL on Aug. 25 for "Actuation of a device comprising mechanical arms" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,519, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MOMENTIS SURGICAL LTD. (Or Yehuda, Israel).

"Actuation of a device comprising mechanical arms" was invented by Dvir Cohen (Ramot-Menashe, Israel) and Yaron Levinson (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention relate to a mechanism for actuating a shaft having two degrees of freedom, comprising: a first actuator configured to rotate the shaft around the shaft axis, and a second actuator configured to bend the shaft using one or more elongated elements attached to the shaft, wherein actuation of the first actuator indirectly manipulates the elongated element...