US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on July 14 for "Methods for detecting robotic arm end effector attachment and devices thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,243, issued on July 14, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods for detecting robotic arm end effector attachment and devices thereof" was invented by Samuel C. Dumpe (Beaver, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, interface adapter devices, and surgical computing devices and systems that detect and analyze connectivity of an end effector to a robotic arm are disclosed. With this technology, an interface adapter device of a robotic arm includes a connectivity sens...