US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 26 for "Automatic motion control of a dependent surgical robotic arm" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,811, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Automatic motion control of a dependent surgical robotic arm" was invented by Aleksandra Popovic (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion dependency surgical robotic system (100) employs an independent robotic arm (20), a dependent robotic arm (21), and a motion dependency robot controller (104). In operation, the motion dependency robot controller (104) controls an independent motion of the independent robotic arm (20) within a coordinate space responsive to an input signal indicative of the motion of the independent robotic arm (20) w...