US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 25 for "Surgical robotic platform for operating within the constrained space of an imaging scanner" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,441, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Surgical robotic platform for operating within the constrained space of an imaging scanner" was invented by Dimitrious A. Schreiber (La Jolla, Calif.) and Michael Yip (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic platform operates within a constrained space of an imaging scanner in which a patient resides. The platform includes a gross positioning stage configured to be located outside of the constrained space An end-effector having a rotatable shaft is extendable from the gross positioning stage and into the ...