ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,505, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GUANGZHOU OCULOTRONICS MEDICAL INSTRUMENT Co. LTD. (Guangzhou, China).

"Robot-assisted automatic introduction method and device for trocar" was invented by Shengzhi Lin (Guangzhou, China) and Pisong Yan (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot-assisted automatic introduction method and device for a trocar are provided. The robot-assisted automatic introduction method includes: acquiring a dataset of the trocar, and training through a preset U-Net to acquire a first model; detecting, by the first model, a position of the trocar in a target image, and outputting position informati...