US Patent Issued to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 22 for "Robotically controlled uterine manipulator" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,809, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL (Zug, Switzerland).

"Robotically controlled uterine manipulator" was invented by Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio), Matthew Vargas (San Francisco) and Clinton Denlinger (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a robotic platform and a uterine manipulator. The robotic platform includes a base, a plurality of robotic arms, and a grounding structure configured to couple one or more of the robotic arms to the base. The uterine manipulator includes an interface configured to couple with a first robotic arm of the robotic platform. The uterine manipulat...