ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,101, issued on May 26, was assigned to EDDA TECHNOLOGY INC. (Princeton, N.J.).

"System and method for automated determination of robot base location via trocar's accessibility map" was invented by Yash Evalekar (Princeton, N.J.), Yuanfeng Mao (Princeton, N.J.), Guo-Qing Wei (Plainsboro, N.J.), Li Fan (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaolan Zeng (Princeton, N.J.) and Jianzhong Qian (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to automated robot base location determination. An instrument access map is obtained with respect to a surgical instrument for performing a surgical operation on an organ and defines a...