ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,694, issued on May 13, was assigned to Momentis Surgical LTD (Or-Yehuda, Israel).
"Dual control of a mechanical surgical arm" was invented by Dvir Cohen (Ramot-Menashe, Israel) and Yaron Levinson (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system, comprising an articulated mechanical arm with a plurality of arm joints, first and second user-input devices for controlling the arm, and a surgical end effector at the distal end of the arm, is operated initially in a retroflexing mode with the first user-input device is active to direct flexion and rotation of only a single given arm joints, and with the second user-input ...