US Patent Issued to ECENTIAL ROBOTICS on March 4 for "Surgical robotic system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,406, issued on March 4, was assigned to ECENTIAL ROBOTICS (Gieres, France).

"Surgical robotic system" was invented by David Armand (Saint Egreve, France) and Stephane Lavallee (St Martin d'Uriage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a surgical robotic system comprising a robotic arm holding an end-effector and a control unit for controllably moving the robotic arm and maintaining the end-effector in at least one target position relative to a patient. The control unit can, based on a first input continuously applied onto the robotic arm, activate a hand guiding mode wherein the robotic arm is freely movable by the user;...