US Patent Issued to Microbot Medical, Technion Research & Development Foundation on July 29 for "Modular robotic system for driving movement of surgical tools" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,777, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microbot Medical Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel) and Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Modular robotic system for driving movement of surgical tools" was invented by Simon Sharon (Zichron Yaacov, Israel), Idan Boader (Carmiel, Israel), Evgeny Kofman (Kiriat-Motzkin, Israel), Eran Cohen (Kiryat-Tivon, Israel), Eyal Morag (Tel Aviv, Israel), Harel Gadot (Hingham, Mass.) and Moshe Shoham (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular robotic surgical system comprising: a base; a plurality of tool-receivers arranged as separate units, each tool-receiver unit op...