ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,359, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PRECEYES B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Surgical master-slave robot" was invented by Gerrit Jacobus Lambertus Naus (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Hildebert Christiaan Matthijs Meenink (Steenderen, Netherlands), Maarten Joannes Beelen ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) and Marc Joseph Dominique De Smet (Mont sur Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a surgical master-slave robot for use in minimally (or reduced) invasive surgery on a subject. The robot includes an instrument manipulator for mounting of a surgical instrument, and a linkage system for movea...