US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics on July 28 for "Methods for improving robotic surgical systems and devices thereof" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,921, issued on July 28, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) and Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Methods for improving robotic surgical systems and devices thereof" was invented by Shawn P. McGuan (San Clemente, Calif.) and Branislav Jaramaz (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and surgical computing devices are illustrated that improve robotic surgical systems. With this technology, one or more machine learning models are trained based on historical state data obtained for a computer-assisted ...