ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,938, issued on July 28, was assigned to Virtual Incision Corp. (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Robotic surgical devices, systems, and related methods" was invented by Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Neb.), Chris Santoro (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jeff Shasho (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Nishant Kumar (Bergenfield, N.J.), Mateusz Szczesiak (Forest Hills, N.Y.) and Jason Herman (East Northport, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Certain embodiments include various modular medical devices for in vivo medical p...