US Patent Issued to Moon Surgical on Aug. 26 for "Co-manipulation surgical system having multiple operational modes for use with surgical instruments for performing surgery" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,711, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Moon Surgical SAS (Paris).

"Co-manipulation surgical system having multiple operational modes for use with surgical instruments for performing surgery" was invented by Victoria Cheng-Tan Wu (San Francisco), Jad Fayad (Paris), David Paul Noonan (San Francisco), Jeffery Byron Alvarez (San Carlos, Calif.), Ehsan Basafa (Redwood City, Calif.), Ritwik Ummalaneni (San Francisco) and Nicolas Linard (Montrouge, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Co-manipulation robotic systems are described herein that may be used for assisting with laparoscopic surgical procedures. The co-manipulation robotic syste...