US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Feb. 17 for "Sterile adapter drive disks for use in a robotic surgical system" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,307, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sterile adapter drive disks for use in a robotic surgical system" was invented by Charles J. Scheib (Loveland, Ohio) and Jaime Hernandez (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally, a sterile adapter for use in robotic surgery may include a frame configured to be interposed between a tool driver and a surgical tool, a plate assembly coupled to the frame, and at least one rotatable coupler supported by the plate assembly and configured to communicate torque from an output drive of the tool driver to an input drive of the surgical tool." ...