US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Feb. 24 for "Integrated sensors for energy tools" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,150, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated sensors for energy tools" was invented by Benjamin Alan Sanker (San Jose, Calif.), Berk Gonenc (San Jose, Calif.), Jose Luis Cordoba (Malaga, Spain) and Pablo Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy tool for a surgical robotic system, the energy tool comprising: a jaw coupled to a base, the jaw having a first anvil that moves relative to a second anvil between an open position and a closed position; and at least one of a force sensor, a temperature sensor and an acoustic sensor coupled to the jaw."

The pat...