US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on May 26 for "System and method to avoid contact with hot instrument in robotic surgical system" (Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,069, issued on May 26, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"System and method to avoid contact with hot instrument in robotic surgical system" was invented by Scotty A. Chung (Cincinnati), Mihir P. Joshi (Holland, Ohio) and Matjaz Jogan (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a robotic arm, an instrument, and a control module. The control module is operable to drive movement of the robotic arm to thereby move the instrument relative to the patient. The control module is configured to monitor one or more parameters indicative of a temperature of a portion of the end effector of the instru...