US Patent Issued to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on May 13 for "Robotic surgical devices, systems and related methods" (Nebraska, Texas, New Jersey, Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,680, issued on May 13, was assigned to Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Robotic surgical devices, systems and related methods" was invented by Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Neb.), Erik Mumm (Longmont, Colo.), Philip Chu (Friendswood, Texas), Nishant Kumar (Bergenfield, N.J.), Jason Dumpert (Omaha, Neb.) and Yutaka Tsutano (Campbell, Calif.).

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 ...