US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on May 26 for "Patient-specific remote center of motion for robotic surgical system" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,103, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Patient-specific remote center of motion for robotic surgical system" was invented by Tracey A. Morley (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rudolph H. Nobis (Mason, Ohio), Andrew Jernberg (San Francisco), Mario F. Luces Rosado (Oakland, Calif.), Dillon R. Carey (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew T. Hill (Norwood, Ohio) and Chelsea Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a robotic coupling base configured to selectively coupled with a robotic arm of a robotic surgical system. A shaft extends distally from the robotic coupling base. T...