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"Trocar Support" in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20240081191)
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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-A patent application by the inventor B eckman,Andrew (Cincinnati,OH,US),filed on April 17,2023,was made available online on March 14,2024,according to news reporting originating from Washingt on,D.C.,by NewsRx correspondents. This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution. The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: "Minimally invasive surgical (MIS) instruments a re often preferred over traditional open surgical devices due to the reduced pos t-operative recovery time and minimal scarring. Laparoscopic surgery is one type of MIS procedure in which one or more small incisions are formed in the abdomen and a trocar is inserted through the incision to form a pathway that provides a ccess to the abdominal cavity. The trocar is used to introduce various instrumen ts and tools into the abdominal cavity,as well as to provide insufflation to el evate the abdominal wall above the organs. The instruments and tools can be used to engage and/or treat tissue in a number of ways to achieve a diagnostic or th erapeutic effect. Endoscopic surgery is another type of MIS procedure in which e longate flexible shafts are introduced into the body through a natural orifice. "Although traditional minimally invasive surgical instruments and techniques hav e proven highly effective,newer systems may provide even further advantages. Fo r example,traditional minimally invasive surgical instruments often deny the su rgeon the flexibility of tool placement found in open surgery. Difficulty is exp erienced in approaching the surgical site with the instruments through the small incisions. Additionally,the added length of typical endoscopic instruments oft en reduces the surgeon's ability to feel forces exerted by tissues and organs on the end effector. Furthermore,coordination of the movement of the end effector of the instrument as viewed in the image on the television monitor with actual end effector movement is particularly difficult,since the movement as perceived in the image normally does not correspond intuitively with the actual end effec tor movement. Accordingly,lack of intuitive response to surgical instrument mov ement input is often experienced. Such a lack of intuitiveness,dexterity,and s ensitivity of endoscopic tools has been found to be an impediment in the increas ed the use of minimally invasive surgery.