US Patent Issued to MINMAXMEDICAL on March 31 for "Computer-assisted surgery system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,955, issued on March 31, was assigned to MINMAXMEDICAL (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).

"Computer-assisted surgery system" was invented by Thomas Lonjaret (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France), Elie Fournier (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France), Christophe Dehan (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France), Stephane Lavallee (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France), Sebastien Camet (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France), Sylvain Fontaine (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France) and Jeremy Quintin (Saint-Martin-d'Heres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted surgery system allows a user to control movements of a surgical tool by providing, to a control unit, inputs in t...