US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on Dec. 16 for "Tool-type agnostic assistance functionality for surgical operations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,144, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Tool-type agnostic assistance functionality for surgical operations" was invented by Markus Philipp (Oberkochen, Germany) and Stefan Saur (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to techniques for controlling an assistance functionality for a surgical operation on a patient. A machine-trained algorithm is used to obtain a map (76) of an operation region. This map can be used to control an assistance functionality in the context of the surgical operation. The map is indicative of one or more activity regions (101-103), whic...