ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,482, issued on June 17.
"Motorized surgical system for positioning and alignment of surgical instruments" was invented by Sunita Chauhan (Malvern East, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument carrier for assisting with the positioning of a surgical instrument during surgery, the carrier having an arcuate rail mountable to an operating table and moveable relative to the table for positioning the rail over a target region in use; and a carriage operatively coupled to the rail, the carriage having a support for carrying the surgical instrument; where the carriage is configured to be movable along the rail such that moveme...