ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,184, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RevMedica Inc. (Middletown, Conn.).
"Power pack for activating surgical instruments" was invented by Thomas G. Wenchell Jr. (Durham, Conn.) and C. Robert Satti III (Westbrook, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system having a surgical instrument having a connection portion including a connector connectable to a robot arm for mounting of the surgical instrument to the robot arm so that the instrument can be robotically manipulated by the robot arm to adjust a position of the instrument via a first communication from a remote central processing unit to the robot arm. A remotely actuat...