ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,006, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Joint calibration for surgical tool" was invented by Ali Asadian (San Jose, Calif.), Alireza Hariri (Berkeley, Calif.) and Andrew Dahdouh (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for a surgical tool or a surgical robotic system. An end effector of the surgical tool is coupled to a tool driver. An actuator is driven by a motor of the tool driver and configured to drive a degree of freedom of the end effector. One or more processors are configured to receive a position command describing a ...