US Patent Issued to CMR Surgical on Aug. 11 for "Control system of a surgical robot" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,499, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CMR Surgical Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Control system of a surgical robot" was invented by Edward John Mottram (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Graham John Veitch (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system of a surgical robot arm, the surgical robot arm comprising a series of joints by which the configuration of that surgical robot arm can be altered and one or more force or torque sensors, each force or torque sensor configured to sense a force or torque at a joint of the series of joints, the control system being configured to control the configuration of ...