MUMBAI, India, Aug. 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527074857 A) filed by Medical Microinstruments Inc., Wilmington, U.S.A., on Aug. 6, for 'master controller device comprising a wearable portion for robotic.'
Inventor(s) include Montagnani, Federico; Pineschi, Nicola; Ruffaldi, Emanuele; Pratesi, Andrea; Simi, Massimiliano; Joseph, Alexander Richard; Pidgeon, Andrew Duncan; Doyle, Samuel John; Hopkins, Benjamin David; Curtis-Woodcock, Niven; and Bavar, Shadi.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 29, under issue no. 35/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An unconstrained master controller device (110) for a robotic system for medical or surgical teleoperation, comprising at least one wearable portion (210) comprising a pair of wearable elements (211, 212) for the fingers (F1, F2) of a surgeon and a control gripper (220) for controlling at least one degree of freedom of a slave surgical instrument (170) associable with the master controller device, wherein the master controller device (110) comprises at least one internal degree of freedom of orientation which allows reorienting at least one wearable element (211, 212) of said pair."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 12, 2024, under International application No.PCT/IB2024/051281.
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