US Patent Issued to CONAVI MEDICAL on Feb. 17 for "Brake assembly for robotic surgery system" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,436, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CONAVI MEDICAL CORP. (North York, Canada).

"Brake assembly for robotic surgery system" was invented by Angelica Basco de Rosa Payne (Copley, Ohio), Spencer Scott Pratt (Cary, N.C.), Abraham Allen Shipley (Apex, N.C.) and Hans Christian Pflaumer (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgery cart has a pair of rear wheel assemblies and a pair of front wheel assemblies. A brake assembly for the robotic surgery cart includes a gearbox interposed between and connected to the pair of rear wheel assemblies by rotatable shafts. Elongate actuators extend between and interconnect the rotat...