US Patent Issued to CMR Surgical on March 17 for "Control system for surgical robot system with safety device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,903, issued on March 17, was assigned to CMR Surgical Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Control system for surgical robot system with safety device" was invented by Andrew Murray Scholan (Cheshunt, Great Britain), Adam Peter Sutton (Ely, Great Britain) and Paul Christopher Roberts (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling a surgical robot system, the surgical robot system comprising a surgical robot, the surgical robot comprising a base, and an arm extending from the base to an attachment for an instrument, the arm comprising a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm c...