US Patent Issued to CMR Surgical on Oct. 20 for "Arrangement for supporting a surgical robot" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,699, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CMR Surgical Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Arrangement for supporting a surgical robot" was invented by Daniel Christopher Welchman (Cambridge, Great Britain), Roger James Springett (North Northamptonshire, Great Britain), Andrew Robert Mawby (London), Silvia Perez (Cambridge, Great Britain), Pedro Angel Riera Martinez (London) and Julia Masvidal I Andreu (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for supporting a surgical robot, the arrangement comprising: a planar member on which the surgical robot is supported; a bladder coupled to a bottom surface of the pla...