ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,470, issued on June 24, was assigned to CMR Surgical Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Fault detection response in a robot arm" was invented by Paul Roberts (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot arm comprising: a first link connected to a second link by a joint, the joint permitting the second link to move relative to the first link; a motor for driving the joint; and a controller for controlling the motor. The controller is configured to electrically brake the motor in response to detection of a fault in the robot arm by applying a braking current to the motor so as to maintain the position of the joint ag...