US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on July 15 for "Enabling secure data exchange between a robotic surgical system and surgical tools via near field communication (NFC)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,423, issued on July 15, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enabling secure data exchange between a robotic surgical system and surgical tools via near field communication (NFC)" was invented by Mufaddal Jhaveri (Fremont, Calif.), Robert Abad (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jan Bosteels (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this patent disclosure, various embodiments of using near-field communication (NFC) to facilitate secure data exchange between a robotic surgical system and a surgical tool attached onto the robotic surgical system are disclosed. In one aspect, a process for enabling secure data exch...