ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,036, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Andromeda Surgical Inc. (San Francisco).

"Image guided surgical robotic platform" was invented by Nicholas Ralph Damiano (San Francisco) and Kartik Tiwari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, including one or more processors configured to receive imaging data of a surgical site, where an end effector held by a surgical robot is positioned in the surgical site, determine one or more anatomical landmarks in the imaging data, determine a location of the end effector, and generate a presentation to be presented on a user interface. The presentation includes one or more presentat...