US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for surgical task automation" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,829, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for surgical task automation" was invented by Meng Zheng (Cambridge, Mass.), Benjamin Planche (Briarwood, N.Y.), Ziyan Wu (Lexington, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and instrumentalities are described herein for automatically devising and executing a surgical plan associated with a patient in a medical environment, e.g., under the supervision of a medical professional. The surgical plan may be devised based on images of the medical environment captured by ...