MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517070040 A) filed by Horizon Surgical Systems, Inc.; and The Regents Of The University Of California, Malibu, U.S.A., on July 23, for 'surgical tool holder for intraocular robotic surgical systems.'
Inventor(s) include Ferguson, Peter; Ma, Ji; and Rosen, Jacob.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A number of different surgical tool holder assemblies are provided. A number of configurations are suited for use in intraocular robotic surgery. The assembly includes a housing and a kinematic alignment feature on the housing right side and a kinematic alignment feature on the housing left side. There is also a tool sleeve coupled to a surgical instrument and a tool collar coupled to the tool sleeve. There is also a rotary transmission connector on the housing proximal end coupled to a drive shaft and a drive gear, the drive gear engaged to the driven gear. There may also be an alignment plate above the tool holder, the alignment plate having at least one kinematic alignment feature. Several kinematic alignment features are bi-directionally operable."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 05, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/010586.
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