US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on Sept. 23 for "Emulation of robotic arms and control thereof in a virtual reality environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,712, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Emulation of robotic arms and control thereof in a virtual reality environment" was invented by Haoran Yu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Pablo Eduardo Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.), Bernard Fai Kin Siu (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric Mark Johnson (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual reality system providing a virtual robotic surgical environment, and methods for using the virtual reality system, are described herein. Within the virtual reality system, various user modes enable different kinds of interactions between a user and the virt...