ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,198, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Surgical robot with passive end effector" was invented by Olivier Chappuis (Lutry, Switzerland) and Szymon Kostrzewski (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive end effector of a surgical system includes a base, a first mechanism, and a second mechanism. The base attaches to an end effector coupler of a robot arm positioned by a surgical robot. The first mechanism extends between a rotatable connection to the base and a rotatable connection to a tool attachment mechanism. The second mechanism extends between a rotatable connection to th...