US Patent Issued to Asensus Surgical US on Nov. 4 for "Simultaneous direct relative measurement and calculated positions of equipment bases" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,125, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Asensus Surgical US Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Simultaneous direct relative measurement and calculated positions of equipment bases" was invented by Kevin Hufford (Cary, N.C.) and Lior Alpert (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method fort determining the relative positions of robotic manipulators makes use of a camera positioned in an operating room so as to capture images or portions of first and second robotic manipulators that are positioned outside a patient body cavity. The camera captures images of first and second robotic manipulators, the images are analyzed in real tim...