US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Aug. 26 for "Handheld user interface device for a surgical robot" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,813, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Handheld user interface device for a surgical robot" was invented by Bernhard Adolf Fuerst (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Pablo Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a mobile interface device to control a robotically-assisted surgical system. The mobile interface device provides a surgeon with a direct view of the surgical robotic system and allows a surgeon to easily and intuitively select, control, or manipulate various target components of the surgical robotic system. The mobile interface device may capture a ...