US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on April 8 for "Haptic feedback devices for surgical robot" (Ohio, Minnesota, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,408, issued on April 8, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Haptic feedback devices for surgical robot" was invented by Barry C. Worrell (Centerville, Ohio), Geoffrey S. Strobl (Williamsburg, Ohio), Gregory A. Trees (Loveland, Ohio), Jonathan T. Batross (Cincinnati), Nicholas G. Molitor (Milford, Ohio), Kristen T. Shoger (Cincinnati), David K. Norvell (Monroe, Ohio), Michael J. Andreyko (Cincinnati), Gregory W. Johnson (Minneapolis), Shawn C. Snyder (Greendale, Ind.) and Chad P. Boudreaux (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of surgical robot control systems are disclosed. In one ex...