US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Nov. 11 for "Proximity sensors for surgical robotic arm manipulation" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,443, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Proximity sensors for surgical robotic arm manipulation" was invented by Xin Liu (Milpitas, Calif.), Berk Gonenc (Cupertino, Calif.), Bernhard A. Fuerst (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jose Luis Cordoba (Malaga, Spain) and Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system including a surgical table, a surgical robotic manipulator coupled to the surgical table and comprising a plurality of links coupled together by a plurality of joints that are operable to move with respect to one another to move the surgical robo...