US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for trocar simulation with admittance haptic feedback" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,413, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for trocar simulation with admittance haptic feedback" was invented by Ann Majewicz Fey (Austin, Texas), Kimberly Kho (Dallas), Aldo Galvan (Austin, Texas) and Marian Y. Williams-Brown (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods to provide an admittance haptic feedback in response to an external force input applied to an elongated member in order to simulate a trocar insertion. In certain embodiments, the admittance haptic feedback is configured to simulate penetration of and ...