ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,547, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Powering a surgical robot arm" was invented by Gordon Thomas Deane (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a remote surgeon console having a surgeon input device, and a surgical robot arm comprising a series of joints extending from a base to a terminal end for attaching to a surgical instrument, the surgical robot arm operable in a full power mode in which the joints of the surgical robot arm are powered by a first power source and a reduced pow...