US Patent Issued to THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION on Sept. 9 for "Method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system and corresponding system" (Italian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,563, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY (EURATOM), REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (Brussels).

"Method of force estimation for a minimally invasive medical system and corresponding system" was invented by Emilio Ruiz Morales (Taino, Italy) and Carlos Correcher Salvador (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a minimally invasive medical system, including positioning a tip of a surgical instrument through an incision into a body cavity, the surgical instrument having an instrument shaft with a longitudinal instrument axis, mounting the surgical instrument to a ...