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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2020
Applicant:
Verb Surgical Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Klaus R. Zietlow, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Philip L. Graves, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Qiong Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Roth K. Wiedrick, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Verb Surgical Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/37 (2016.02); B25J 9/1689 (2013.01); G05D 1/0038 (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.