ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,180, issued on April 8, was assigned to Digital Surgery Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Stereoscopic visualization camera and integrated robotics platform with force/torque sensor non-linearity correction" was invented by Hossein Faraji (Goleta, Calif.), Stephen Minne (Goleta, Calif.) and Michael Larkin (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New and innovative systems and methods for calibrating and correcting sensors associated with a collaborative robot are disclosed. An example system comprises: at least one robotic arm; a sensor affixed to a location on the robotic arm, wherein the sensor measures force and torque across ...