US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on July 21 for "Robotic surgical station" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,604, issued on July 21, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Robotic surgical station" was invented by Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti (Chicago) and Andreas Vogler (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical station is disclosed having a wheeled base, a partial-ring shaped structure slidably coupled to the based to be rotatable relative to the base about a horizontal roll axis passing through a center of the ring shape, a patient's bed restrained to a first arcuate segment of the partial-ring shaped structure at a first mount, a plurality of robotic arms restrained to a second...