ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,297, issued on March 24, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Elongate treatment probe for robotic surgery" was invented by Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.), Surag Mantri (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Peter Bentley (Reno, Nev.), Luis Baez (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Luis Badia (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical treatment apparatus comprises an elongate support, an elongate tube, and a movable endoscope having a stiff distal portion, in which the stiff distal portion of the endoscope is configured to move one or more components of the apparatus when the support remains...