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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2022
Asensus Surgical Us, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Randall L. Luck, Cary, NC (US);
Kevin Andrew Hufford, Cary, NC (US);
Asensus Surgical US, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A wireless power transmission system for a robotic surgical system includes features for optical data transmission. A first component of the surgical system includes a control element, a power transmission element and an optical data transmission element; and a second component of the surgical system including a wireless power receiving element and an optical data receiving element, the second component is removably mountable to the first component. In some embodiments, a barrier such as a surgical drape and/or hermetic enclosure is positioned between the first and second components. In one example, of the components is a robotic manipulator arm and another is a powered instrument removably mountable to the manipulator arm.