ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,995, issued on July 8, was assigned to Moon Surgical SAS (Paris).

"Co-manipulation surgical systems having optical sensors for generating graphical displays" was invented by Jeffery Byron Alvarez (San Carlos, Calif.), Nicolas Linard (Montrouge, France), Ehsan Basafa (Redwood City, Calif.), Ritwik Ummalaneni (San Francisco), Jad Fayad (Paris), David Paul Noonan (San Francisco), Victoria Cheng-Tan Wu (San Francisco) and Jesus Mago (Saint-Mande, 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 system...