US Patent Issued to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on June 24 for "Methods, systems, and devices relating to robotic surgical devices, end effectors, and controllers" (Nebraska, Minnesota, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,777, issued on June 24, was assigned to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Methods, systems, and devices relating to robotic surgical devices, end effectors, and controllers" was invented by Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Neb.), Thomas Frederick (Gretna, Neb.), Joe Bartels (Pittsburgh), Eric Markvicka (Lincoln, Neb.) and Jack Mondry (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to improved robotic surgical systems, including robotic surgical devices having improved arm components and/or biometric sensors, contact detection systems for robotic surgical devices, gro...