US Patent Issued to ForSight Robotics on Sept. 16 for "Kinematic structures for robotic microsurgical procedures" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,269, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ForSight Robotics Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

"Kinematic structures for robotic microsurgical procedures" was invented by Ariel Gil (Haifa, Israel), Daniel Glozman (Kfar Yona, Israel) and Ofer Arnold (Ma'ale Zvia, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described for performing a procedure using a robotic unit. A tool-actuation arm is driven to move linearly, to thereby move at least the portion of the tool linearly with respect to the end effector. The tool-actuation arm is driven to become retracted to a given distance from the tool mount, thereby causing the tool-...