ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,467, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).
"Surgical instrument with hover sensor and related methods" was invented by Benjamin D. Dickerson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system, including: a robotic arm including a distal end; a tool driver operatively coupled with the distal end of the robotic arm; a control unit; a surgical instrument including: an end effector configured to transmit therapeutic energy to tissue via a therapeutic energy cycle based on instructions from the control unit; and an tissue sensor configured to determine at least one tissue ch...