US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on June 2 for "Method and system for a confidence-based supervised-autonomous control strategy for robotic-assisted surgery" (Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,611, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Method and system for a confidence-based supervised-autonomous control strategy for robotic-assisted surgery" was invented by Hamed Saeidi (Wilmington, N.C.), Axel Krieger (Fulton, Md.), Michael Kam (Baltimore), Simon Leonard (State College, Pa.) and Justin Opfermann (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system, a computer-readable medium, and a computer-implemented method for robot-assisted suturing is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes determining, by a suture planner algorithm executed by a hardware processor, a desired...