ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,523, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Robotic surgical assembly" was invented by Massimiliano Simi (Calci, Italy) and Giuseppe Maria Prisco (Calci, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical assembly (100) includes a support (104), one macro-positioning arm (30), connected to the support (104) and having a plurality of degrees of freedom. The macro-positioning arm (30) includes a support member (38), at least two micro-positioning devices (41, 141, 241, 341), each having a plurality of motorized degrees of freedom, connected in cascade to the support member (38) of the...