US Patent Issued to ORTHOSOFT on Aug. 11 for "Surgical robotic arm with proximity skin sensing" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,503, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ORTHOSOFT ULC (Montreal).

"Surgical robotic arm with proximity skin sensing" was invented by Pierre Maillet (Mudaison, France), Patrice Bonaric (Saint Georges d'Orques, France), Maxence Francois (Montpellier, France) and Laurent Ricatti (Candillargues, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotized computer-assisted surgery system may include a processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for obtaining readings from some capacitive sensors re...