US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on July 21 for "Isolation mechanism for force/torque sensor" (Florida, New Mexico, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,605, issued on July 21, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Isolation mechanism for force/torque sensor" was invented by Victor Soto (Coral Gables, Fla.), David Gene Bowling (Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, N.M.), Ezra Johnson (Reeds Spring, Mo.) and Nicholas Joseph LaBarbera (Tamarac, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An isolation mechanism that is configured for a robotic manipulator is provided. The robotic manipulator includes an arm to be driven by a transmission, a force/torque sensor, and one or more sensing elements configured to sense forces and torques applied to the force/torque sensor, wherein the isolation...