US Patent Issued to CMR SURGICAL on July 15 for "Navigational aid" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,392, issued on July 15, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Navigational aid" was invented by Luke David Ronald Hares (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Robert Mawby (Harringay, Great Britain) and Mark Clifford Slack (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system for augmenting a representation of at least a portion of a surgical site for aiding in orienting the representation is disclosed. The system can receive an imaging device signal indicative of the location and orientation of an imaging device relative to a surgical site. The system can augment a representation of ...