ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,880, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CMR Surgical Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Watchdog circuitry of a surgical robot arm" was invented by Hamish Henderson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Scholan (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Gordon Thomas Deane (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot with a surgical robot arm and a surgical robot arm controller. The surgical robot arm has a set of joints and a joint controller. The joint controller is configured to drive a joint of the set of joints. The surgical robot arm controller has a processor and watchdog circuitry. The processor is configured...