US Patent Issued to EDDA TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 16 for "System and method for automated surgical position marking in robot-assisted surgery" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,142, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to EDDA TECHNOLOGY INC. (Princeton, N.J.).

"System and method for automated surgical position marking in robot-assisted surgery" was invented by Yuanfeng Mao (Princeton, N.J.), Guo-Qing Wei (Plainsboro, N.J.), Li Fan (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaolan Zeng (Princeton, N.J.) and Jianzhong Qian (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to surgical position marking. A 3D model for an organ includes cut points forming a surgical trajectory. Each cut point has a 3D coordinate and a surface norm in the model space. When projected into a workspace, a mapped cut point ...