By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-According to news reporting originatin g from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inve ntors Hagn, Ulrich (Muenchen, DE); Wolff, Reiner (Inning, DE), filed on November 19, 2020, was made available online on February 15, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Robotic surgical systems have been used in minimally invasive medical procedures. Some robotic surgical systems include a console linked to a surgical robotic arm and a surgical instrument mounted to the robotic arm. The surgical instrument may have an elongated shaft that supports at least one end e ffector (e.g., forceps or a grasping tool) on a distal end thereof. In some robo tic surgical systems, the entire length of the elongated shaft of the surgical i nstrument must pass through a holder or other feature of the robotic arm, thereb y making removal or exchange of the surgical instrument from the robotic arm cum bersome. "Manually-operated surgical instruments often include a handle assembly for actu ating the functions of the surgical instrument; however, when using a robotic su rgical system, no handle assembly is typically present to actuate the functions of the end effector. It is the robotic arm of the robotic surgical system that p rovides mechanical power to the surgical instrument for its operation and moveme nt. Each robotic arm may include an instrument drive unit that is operatively co nnected to the surgical instrument and slidably coupled to the robotic arm."
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