US Patent Issued to Maciej J. Kieturakis on Sept. 8 for "Methods and systems for robotic single-port laparoscopic access" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,756, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Maciej J. Kieturakis (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for robotic single-port laparoscopic access" was invented by Maciej J. Kieturakis (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laparoscopic tool has a semicircular mid-portion with a center point and coinciding remote center of the robotic arm, to which the tool is mounted on a common axis located between straight proximal and straight distal sections. The straight proximal of the laparoscopic tool is rotatably mounted on a fixed side mount on surgical robotic arm. The robotic arm is disengaged from the surgical r...