US Patent Issued to CMR SURGICAL on Jan. 27 for "Surgical robotic arm and instrument detachment" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,197, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Surgical robotic arm and instrument detachment" was invented by James Oliver Grant (Cambridge, Great Britain), Kenneth Focht (Needham, Mass.), Joseph Gordon (Mansfield, Mass.) and Peter Calvin Costello (Raynham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot arm comprises a base connected to a terminal link (503) via a series of intermediate joints. The terminal link (503) comprises a drive assembly interface comprising drive assembly interface elements (1101a,b,c). Each drive assembly interface element is configured to: engage an instrument...