ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,087, issued on July 29, was assigned to Quantum Surgical (Montpellier, France).
"System for immobilizing a medical robot" was invented by Bertin Nahum (Castelnau-le-Lez, France), Fernand Badano (Lyons, France), Lucien Blondel (Montpellier, France) and Estelle Pescher (Montpellier, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a system for immobilizing a mobile device, such as a medical assistance robot, comprising: a linkage mechanism connecting at least three feet to one another and intended to be fixed to the chassis of the mobile device, said linkage mechanism being adapted to drive the feet sliding in respective gu...