US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for magnetic sensing and docking with a trocar" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,681, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for magnetic sensing and docking with a trocar" was invented by Bernhard A. Fuerst (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dennis Moses (Hollywood, Fla.), Miguel Piedrahita (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Wong (Mountain View, Calif.), Pablo Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Jose Luis Cordoba (Malaga, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system has a tool drive coupled to a distal end of a robotic arm that has a plurality of actuators. The tool drive has a docking interface to receive a trocar. One or more sensors in the docking ...