ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,336, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).
"Remote center of motion robot" was invented by Dan Stoianovici (Reisterstown, Md.), Doru Petrisor (Lutherville, Md.), Changhan Jun (College Park, Md.) and Sunghwan Lim (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a remote center of motion robot. The RCM here is a parallelogram bar type RCM mechanism with a novel joint arrangement. The novel joint arrangement facilitates the mounting of the medical instrument and offers improved clearance relative to the patient. Moreover, the robot was built ...