US Patent Issued to Digital Surgery Systems on May 26 for "Robotic surgical navigation using a proprioceptive digital surgical stereoscopic camera system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,116, issued on May 26, was assigned to Digital Surgery Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Robotic surgical navigation using a proprioceptive digital surgical stereoscopic camera system" was invented by George Charles Polchin (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Simon Raab (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical navigation system is disclosed. An example system includes a stereoscopic camera and a robotic arm having an end-effector connected to the camera. The system also includes a navigation computer that determines a first transformation between the stereoscopic camera and a target surgical site, a second transf...