ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,931, issued on July 28, was assigned to MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method for detecting, based on the measurement or detection of velocities, operating anomalies of an unconstrained master device of a master-slave robotic system for medical or surgical teleoperation and related robotic system" was invented by Matteo Tanzini (Pisa, Italy), Emanuele Ruffaldi (Pisa, Italy), Massimiliano Simi (Pisa, Italy) and Matteo Bagheri Ghavifekr (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method identifies an anomaly condition in operating a hand-held, mechanically unconstrained master device for controlling a robotic syst...