US Patent Issued to Arthrex on May 26 for "System and method for force estimation applied to endoscopes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,847, issued on May 26, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).

"System and method for force estimation applied to endoscopes" was invented by Andrew Bohl (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and John Hygelund (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical imaging apparatus includes an imager configured to capture image data in a field of view and an elongated probe extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The distal end has a distal window through which the field of view is aligned. A controller is in communication with the imager and configured to detect a feature in the image data and identify a feature location of t...