US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Nov. 25 for "Hardstop detection and handling for surgical tool" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,451, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardstop detection and handling for surgical tool" was invented by Xiaobin Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Renbin Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Alireza Hariri (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for a surgical tool or a surgical robotic system. One example system for detecting a hardstop for a surgical tool includes a wrist connected to and driven by a plurality of cables of a tool driver, a plurality of sensors configured to detect forces associated with the plurality of cables one ...