US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on May 13 for "Robotic surgical system and method for communicating synchronous and asynchronous information to and from nodes of a robotic arm" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,689, issued on May 13, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Robotic surgical system and method for communicating synchronous and asynchronous information to and from nodes of a robotic arm" was invented by Philip L. Graves (San Jose, Calif.) and Klaus R. Zietlow (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system is disclosed having a ring network for communicating information between a controller and nodes of one or more robotic arms. A communications protocol is described by which synchronous and asynchronous information can be communicated to and from the nodes of the robotic arms. Also...