US Patent Issued to MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS on Aug. 11 for "Method for verifying the integrity of a master device of a master-slave robotic system for medical or surgical teleoperation and related robotic system" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,098, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method for verifying the integrity of a master device of a master-slave robotic system for medical or surgical teleoperation and related robotic system" was invented by Emanuele Ruffaldi (Pisa, Italy) and Massimiliano Simi (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method verifies functional/structural integrity of a hand-held unconstrained master device to control a robotic system for medical or surgical teleoperation. The master device includes a body having two rigid parts constrained to relatively rotate or translate on a common axis. Po...