ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,133, issued on July 15, was assigned to DEKA Products Ltd. Partneship (Manchester, N.H.).
"Robotic surgery system, method, and apparatus" was invented by Christopher C. Langenfeld (Nashua, N.H.), Michael J. Slate (Merrimack, N.H.), Prashant Bhat (Bedford, N.H.), Dirk A Van Der Merwe (Canterbury, N.H.), David D. B. Cannan (Manchester, N.H.) and Keith D. Violette (Sandown, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force transmission system as part of a surgical system which may be configured to be a minimally invasive and/or computer assisted surgical system. Operation of the system may be controlled by transmission of a force from a first...