ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,100, issued on July 1, was assigned to MICROSURE B.V. (Son, Netherlands).

"Surgical robotic system with adjustable angle of approach" was invented by Raimondo Cau (Son, Netherlands) and Tom Konert (Son, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system is provided including a suspension structure, a manipulator arm for holding a surgical instrument, one or more actuators to adjust a pose of the manipulator arm, and a control system configured to establish a master-slave coupling between a user input device as a master device and the manipulator arm as a slave device. The manipulator may be manually reconfigurable fr...