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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2020
Virtuoso Surgical, Inc., Nashville, TN (US);
Richard Hendrick, Nashville, TN (US);
Neal Dillon, Nashville, TN (US);
Lauren Branscombe, Nashville, TN (US);
Evan Blum, Nashville, TN (US);
Stephanie Amack, Nashville, TN (US);
Virtuoso Surgical, Inc., Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
A highly intuitive physician input device for communication with a minimally invasive endoscopic concentric tube surgical robot. The physician input device can comprise a user interface handle assembly, a user interface linear joint assembly, a user interfaced bearing block assembly, and a user interface base assembly, and sensors distributed throughout to measure each of these axes, possibly redundantly for safety. Due to the network of sensors and encoders built in to the physician input device, it is capable of triggering a movement in the endoscopic concentric tube robot corresponding to that of the movements made on the physician input device. There are at least four movement controls the physician input device is capable of communicating to the concentric tube robot, those being translation, pan, tilt, and axial rotation. In some embodiments a fifth control includes actuation of a tool such as a gripper.