US Patent Issued to ISSA TECHNOLOGY on June 3 for "Controlling system and controlling method of endoscopic surgical robot based on head tracking" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,160, issued on June 3, was assigned to ISSA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Controlling system and controlling method of endoscopic surgical robot based on head tracking" was invented by Chi-Wei Chiu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chih-Kun Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlling system of an endoscopic surgical robot based on head tracking is disclosed. The system includes a host, the robot and a complex camera. The robot holds an endoscope at a specific position through a specific gesture. The complex camera includes a 2D camera for obtaining facial features of a doctor to identify whether the doctor is a r...