US Patent Issued to Vicarious Surgical on July 22 for "Virtual reality wrist assembly" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,550, issued on July 22, was assigned to Vicarious Surgical Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Virtual reality wrist assembly" was invented by Marshall Wentworth (Waltham, Mass.), Eric Kline (Malden, Mass.), Michael Eilenberg (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sammy Khalifa (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical apparatus system for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) which includes a wrist assembly. The wrist assembly includes a first jaw, a first actuation hub, and a cable redirecting hub operably coupled to the first actuation hub, a second jaw, a second actuation hub, a housing for the first and second jaws, a first cable, a second cable...