US Patent Issued to Moon Surgical on Feb. 17 for "Co-manipulation surgical system for use with surgical instruments for performing surgery according to stored surgeon's preferences" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,304, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Moon Surgical SAS (Paris).

"Co-manipulation surgical system for use with surgical instruments for performing surgery according to stored surgeon's preferences" was invented by David Paul Noonan (San Francisco), Jeffery Byron Alvarez (San Carlos, Calif.), Nicolas Linard (Montrouge, France), Ehsan Basafa (Redwood City, Calif.), Ritwik Ummalaneni (San Francisco), Jad Fayad (Paris) and Victoria Cheng-Tan Wu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Co-manipulation robotic systems are described herein that may be used for assisting with laparoscopic surgical procedures. The co-manipulation robot...