US Patent Issued to Mobius Imaging on Oct. 14 for "Robotic surgical system with end effector marker diffusers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,281, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mobius Imaging LLC (Shirley, Mass.).

"Robotic surgical system with end effector marker diffusers" was invented by Edward Daley (Maynard, Mass.), Paul Sebring (Townsend, Mass.) and Gordon Row (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a tool for engaging a target site, a navigation system including a localizer to track states of trackers, a patient tracker for attachment relative to the target site, a robotic arm to maintain alignment of the tool, and an end effector attached to the robotic arm to support the tool. The end effector includes an end effector tracker h...