US Patent Issued to CMR SURGICAL on May 13 for "Controlling movement of a surgical robot arm" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,685, issued on May 13, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Controlling movement of a surgical robot arm" was invented by Luke David Ronald Hares (Cambridge, Great Britain), Paul Christopher Roberts (Cambridge, Great Britain), Graham John Veitch (Cambridge, Great Britain) and 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 and an articulated surgical robot arm comprising a series of joints extending from a base to a terminal end for attaching to an articulated surgical ...