ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,157, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Global Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Surgical robot platform" was invented by Sanjay M. Joshi (Andover, Mass.), Neil Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.) and Jeffrey Forsyth (Cranston, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical robot system, including a robot coupled to an end effector element with the robot configured for controlled movement and positioning. The robot system includes a robot base having a display, a robot arm coupled to the robot base, wherein movement of the robot arm is electronically controlled by the robot base. The end-effector is coupled ...