ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,473, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CMR SURGICAL Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Anonymising robotic data" was invented by Steven Bishop (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Ricardo Michael Henderson da Silva (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided of anonymising data in a surgical robotic system. The surgical robotic system comprises a robot having a base and an arm extending from the base to an attachment for an instrument, the arm comprising a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered. The method comprises receiving a data stream captured by the surgical robotic...