ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,320, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Promaxo Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"MRI-guided robotic systems and methods for biopsy" was invented by Dinesh Kumar (Roseville, Calif.), Aleksandar Nacev (San Francisco), Ram Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.) and Amit Vohra (Rocklin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guided robotic system is disclosed. The guided robotic system includes a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus for real-time imaging of a subject, a computer system for analyzing images in real-time, and a robotic system for guiding a robotic arm based on real-time analysis of the images. A method of using a guided robotic system is a...