ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,130, issued on April 7, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (County Cork, Ireland).
"Robot array" was invented by Nicolas Demanget (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alasdair Mercer (Leeds, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system, including: surgical robot; a connection member connected to the surgical robot; a drape; a plurality of tracking array assemblies configured to engage the connection member wherein the plurality of tracking array assemblies provide different fields of view for a tracking system and wherein the drape is configured to be placed between the connection member and the plurality of tracking ar...