US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 16 for "Systems and methods for automatically changing an end-effector on a surgical robot" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,631, issued on June 16, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for automatically changing an end-effector on a surgical robot" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for automatically exchanging a first end-effector on a robot arm with a second end-effector housed in a docking station. The first end-effector has a clamp that either engages or disengages the robot arm based upon an application of force of the robot arm onto the end-effector. The clamp has a spring loaded clip that disenga...