US Patent Issued to Qatar University on April 14 for "Assistive surgical robot for distal hole localization in intramedullary nail" (Qatari Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,442, issued on April 14, was assigned to Qatar University (Doha, Qatar).

"Assistive surgical robot for distal hole localization in intramedullary nail" was invented by Mohammad Noorizadeh (Doha, Qatar), Nader Meskin (Doha, Qatar) and Masoud Noorizadeh (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for robot assisted surgery can include an imaging device configured to capture an image of an implanted device and a probe. The implanted device can define a hole and the probe can define a hole. The system can also include a robot configured to align a fastener to the hole defined by the implanted device. The system can further incl...