U.S. Patent 7648519 was awarded to Cambridge Endoscopic Devices, Inc. on 2010-01-19 and describes a “Surgical instrument.” This patent has been cited 259 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

A surgical instrument that includes an instrument shaft having proximal and distal ends, a tool disposed from the distal end of the instrument shaft, a control handle disposed from the proximal end of the instrument shaft, a distal motion member for coupling the distal end of the instrument shaft to the tool, a proximal motion member for coupling the proximal end of the instrument shaft to the handle, actuation means extending between the distal and proximal motion members for coupling motion of the proximal motion member to the distal motion member for controlling the positioning of the tool and a locking mechanism for fixing the position of the tool at a selected position and having locked and unlocked states. Link: U.S. Patent 7648519

This patent was originally filed on 2007-01-02 which gives it a processing time of 1113 days, compared to an average processing time of 1818 in the field. Cambridge Endoscopic Devices, Inc. has 18 total patents. The first named inventor is Woojin Lee of Hopkinton, MA. The assistant examiner was Eric Blatt.

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