US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 14 for "Image guided robotic convergent ablation" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,242, issued on July 14, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Image guided robotic convergent ablation" was invented by David Paul Noonan (New York) and Aleksandra Popovic (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system employing a plurality of surgical robots (20) and a surgical procedure controller (22) for executing a surgical procedure on an anatomical structure (e.g., a heart) within an anatomical region (e.g., a thoracic region). In operation, controller (22) autonomously controls a navigation of each surgical robot (20) within the anatomical region relative to the anatomical structure by d...