US Patent Issued to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, The Trustees of Dartmouth College on May 12 for "System and method for image guided transoral robotic surgery using an imaging compatible oral retractor system" (New Hampshire, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,580, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic (Lebanon, N.H.) and The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"System and method for image guided transoral robotic surgery using an imaging compatible oral retractor system" was invented by Yuan Shi (Hanover, N.H.), Xiaotian Wu (East Greenwich, R.I.), Joseph A. Paydarfar (Hanover, N.H.) and Ryan J. Halter (Orford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support rig for a medical instrument can hold a medical instrument that is inserted into a patient in a fixed position and orientation relative to patient, so that the position and orientation of the medical inst...