US Patent Issued to Quantum Surgical on March 31 for "Medical robot for placement of medical instruments under ultrasound guidance" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,960, issued on March 31, was assigned to Quantum Surgical (Montpellier, France).

"Medical robot for placement of medical instruments under ultrasound guidance" was invented by Mathieu Sudre (Restinclieres, France), Lucien Blondel (Montpellier, France), Bertin Nahum (Castelnau-le-Lez, France) and Fernand Badano (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical robot (10) comprises a robotic arm (13) equipped with a tool guide (14) for guiding a medical instrument (15) along a trajectory defined by an entry point at the patient's skin and a target point at a lesion to be treated in an anatomy of interest of the patient. The medi...