ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,598, issued on July 21, was assigned to ORTHOSOFT ULC (Montreal).
"Robotic surgery system with user interfacing" was invented by Pierre Maillet (Mudaison, France), Maxence Francois (Montpellier, France) and Jeremy Bessac (Saussan, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tracking an end effector of a robot in computer-assisted surgery, may have: a processing unit; and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for: obtaining referential tracking data for a first part of a robot using optical ...