US Patent Issued to CMR SURGICAL on May 27 for "Characterising the performance of a robotic joint" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,690, issued on May 27, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Characterising the performance of a robotic joint" was invented by Martin Joseph Blake (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew John Hazell (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew John Reynolds (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterising the performance of a joint in a surgical robotic arm, the joint being driven by a drivetrain which transfers power from a drive source to the joint, the method comprising: sending a first command signal to position the robot arm into an initial configuration; sending a second comman...