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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2017
Applicant:
Verb Surgical Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Philip L. Graves, San Jose, CA (US);
Klaus R. Zietlow, Piedmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Verb Surgical Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/70 (2016.02); A61B 34/37 (2016.02); H04L 1/0083 (2013.01); H04L 1/1664 (2013.01); H04L 1/1671 (2013.01); H04L 47/10 (2013.01); H04L 2001/0095 (2013.01);
Abstract
A robotic surgical system is disclosed having a ring network for communicating information between a controller and nodes of one or more robotic arms. A communications protocol is described by which synchronous and asynchronous information can be communicated to and from the nodes of the robotic arms. Also disclosed are various aspects of a physical layer that can be used with the network.