US Patent Issued to Asensus Surgical US, Asensus Surgical Europe S.aR.L. on April 22 for "Method and system for providing surgical site measurement" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,062, issued on April 22, was assigned to Asensus Surgical US Inc. (Durham, N.C.) and Asensus Surgical Europe S.aR.L. (Bertrange, Luxembourg).

"Method and system for providing surgical site measurement" was invented by Kevin Andrew Hufford (Cary, N.C.), Tal Nir (Haifa, Israel), Lior Alpert (Haifa, Israel), Gal Wiezman (Haifa, Israel), Alexander John Maret (Apex, N.C.) and Mohan Nathan (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measuring distances within a surgical site includes a camera positionable to capture 3D image data corresponding to a treatment site. Using the image data, the system determines the relative 3D po...