US Patent Issued to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER, ACUSURGICAL on Aug. 4 for "System for securing a patient suitable for eye surgery" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,248, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER (Montpellier, France) and ACUSURGICAL (Montpellier, France).

"System for securing a patient suitable for eye surgery" was invented by Christoph Spuhler (Montpellier, France), Yassine Haddab (Montpellier, France), Philippe Poignet (Gignac, France), Antoine Morel (Montpellier, France), Alonso Sanchez (Juvignac, France) and Nicolas Le Borgne (Montpellier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system (100) for securing a patient, intended to interact with a robotic platform equipped with a surgical instrume...