US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on May 6 for "End effector, device for controlling a robot end effector and medical telemanipulation system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,941, issued on May 6, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"End effector, device for controlling a robot end effector and medical telemanipulation system" was invented by Jochen Stefan (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Sven Axel Gruner (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment relates to an end effector (1), in particular a robot end effector, a device (20) with an operating element (25) for controlling an end effector (1), a robot with at least one end effector (1) and a medical telemanipulation system."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/869,849.

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