US Patent Issued to Vicarious Surgical on July 21 for "Drive assembly for surgical robotic system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,559, issued on July 21, was assigned to Vicarious Surgical Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Drive assembly for surgical robotic system" was invented by Alexander Breton (Cambridge, Mass.), Allison M. Stauffer (Cambridge, Mass.), Maeve Devlin (East Boston, Mass.), Eric Kline (Malden, Mass.) and Sammy Khalifa (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly of a surgical robotic system is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the drive assembly includes a first drive unit having a first drive unit face, a second drive unit having a second drive unit face, and a third drive unit having a third drive unit face. Each drive unit may...