US Patent Issued to Auris Health on Oct. 6 for "Tool driver with reaction torque sensor for use in robotic surgery" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,780, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tool driver with reaction torque sensor for use in robotic surgery" was invented by Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jose Luis Cordoba (Malaga, Spain), Berk Gonenc (Cupertino, Calif.) and Xin Liu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool driver for use in robotic surgery includes a base configured to couple to a distal end of a robotic arm, and a tool carriage slidingly engaged with the base and configured to receive a surgical tool. In one variation, the tool carriage may include a plurality of linear axis drives configured to a...