US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Oct. 14 for "Control modes and processes for positioning of a robotic manipulator" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,992, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Control modes and processes for positioning of a robotic manipulator" was invented by Renbin Zhou (Wellington, Fla.), Haoran Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sina Nia Kosari (Fremont, Calif.), Omar J. Vakharia (Palo Alto, Calif.), Bernard Fai Kin Siu (San Jose, Calif.) and Alex Kiturkes (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robotic arm in a robotic surgical system includes defining a reference plane at a predetermined reference location for a robotic arm, where the robotic arm includes a plurality of joints, and driving at l...