ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,295, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Port placement assistance" was invented by Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Suryansh Saxena (Noida, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robotic medical systems may provide port placement guidance to a physician before incisions are made in a patient. A robotic medical system can include a robotic arm and a measurement tool coupled to the robotic arm. The robotic medical system can be configured to determine, based on a location of the measurement tool, a user-selected location for placing a port on a patient. The robotic medical system can compare t...