US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Aug. 26 for "Robotic surgical system with virtual control panel for tool actuation" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,631, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Robotic surgical system with virtual control panel for tool actuation" was invented by Jeffrey S. Swayze (West Chester, Ohio), Joshua Young (Loveland, Ohio) and Andrew Beckman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a detector, comprising an array of pixels configured to detect light reflected by a surgical instrument and generate a first signal comprising a first dataset representative of a visible image of the surgical instrument. The surgical system also includes a processor configured to receive the first signal, ge...