US Patent Issued to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on Sept. 29 for "Gross positioning device and related systems and methods" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,096, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Gross positioning device and related systems and methods" was invented by Mark Reichenbach (Lincoln, Neb.) and Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are gross positioning systems for use with robotic surgical devices to provide gross positioning of the robotic surgical devices. The gross positioning systems have a base, a first arm link operably coupled to the base, a second arm link operably coupled to the first arm link, a third arm link operably coupled to the second arm link, and a sli...