US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Feb. 3 for "Surgical tool having integrated microphones" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,017, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Surgical tool having integrated microphones" was invented by Denise Ann Miller (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Joan Savall (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Geoffrey Robert Russell (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication apparatus and devices for surgical robotic systems are described. The communication apparatus can include a user console in communication with a communication device having a surgical tool. The communication device can include a microphone to convert a sound input into an acoustic input signal. The communication device can transmit...