ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,780, issued on June 24, was assigned to CMR Surgical Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Surgical drape for transferring drive" was invented by Keith Marshall (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rebecca Anne Cuthbertson (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nikki Priyam Su-Ling Phoolchund (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic drape for enveloping a portion of a surgical robot that comprises an instrument having at least one joint, and a robotic arm comprising a drive assembly configured to provide mechanical drive for selectively actuating the at least one joint, the instrument and drive assembly each having a pl...