US Patent Issued on Dec. 2 for "Communication of detected grasping forces in a surgical robotic platform" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,960, issued on Dec. 2.

"Communication of detected grasping forces in a surgical robotic platform" was invented by Kevin Andrew Hufford (Cary, N.C.) and Matthew Robert Penny (Holly Springs, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for displaying tissue information on a display screen includes a camera capturing an image of an anatomical working site including a surgical instrument, and a display displaying the image. A tissue information detection device determines information about the health, pathology etc. of tissue in contact with a surgical instrument, or about an interaction between the surgical instrument and the ...