US Patent Issued to Vicarious Surgical on June 17 for "Surgical virtual reality user interface" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,588, issued on June 17, was assigned to Vicarious Surgical Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Surgical virtual reality user interface" was invented by Jeffrey Bail (Watertown, Mass.), Adam Sachs (Somerville, Mass.) and Maxim Antinori (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical virtual reality user interface generating system can comprise a sensor and tracking unit for sensing and tracking a position of a portion of a user and generating position data based on movement of the user, a computing unit for receiving and processing the position data and generating control signals. The system can also include a surgical robot system fo...