US Patent Issued to BEYEONICS SURGICAL on Sept. 30 for "User interface for controlling a surgical system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,976, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BEYEONICS SURGICAL LTD. (Haifa, Israel).

"User interface for controlling a surgical system" was invented by Yaara Solomon (Haifa, Israel) and Rani Ben-Yishai (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface for enabling and controlling functions of a surgical system, comprising: a foot-operated function switch configured to be switched to any one of multiple discrete states by the user's foot; a head tracker configured to track the user's head motions; and a processor coupled to the function switch and head tracker, and configured to: obtain an association between a plurality of...