ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,707, issued on Oct. 7.
"Surgical robot system with operator configurable instrument control parameters" was invented by Patrick Thornycroft (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew Knight (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot system comprising: a surgical robot, the surgical robot comprising a base, and an arm extending from the base to an attachment for an instrument the arm comprising a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered; an instrument attached to the arm of the surgical robot; and a control unit configured to receive one or more inputs from an operator of the su...