US Patent Issued to Microbot Medical, Technion Research & Development Foundation on July 7 for "Robotic manipulation of a surgical tool handle" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,763, issued on July 7, was assigned to Microbot Medical Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel) and Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Robotic manipulation of a surgical tool handle" was invented by Simon Sharon (Zichron Yaacov, Israel), Idan Boader (Carmiel, Israel), Evgeny Kofman (Kiriat-Motzkin, Israel), Eran Cohen (Kiryat-Tivon, Israel), Eyal Morag (Tel Aviv, Israel), Harel Gadot (Hingham, Mass.) and Moshe Shoham (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptor for coupling a proximal portion of an elongate surgical tool to a motorized robotic surgical device, the adaptor comprising: a recess shaped and...