US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), ACUSURGICAL on Dec. 30 for "Medical device for eye surgery" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,157, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER (Montpellier, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (Paris) and ACUSURGICAL (Montpellier, France).

"Medical device for eye surgery" was invented by Christoph Spuhler (Montpellier, France), Philippe Poignet (Gignac, France) and Yassine Haddab (Montpellier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit for a surgical device, said surgical device (2) comprising: at least one surgical tool comprising an end, called distal, adapted to come into contact with a patient (5), and adapted to be positioned in the patient (5), at least one robotic mob...