US Patent Issued to IX Innovation on March 11 for "Surgical robot evolution and handoff" (Arizona, Washington, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,822, issued on March 11, was assigned to IX Innovation LLC (Seattle).

"Surgical robot evolution and handoff" was invented by Jeffrey Roh (Seattle), Justin Esterberg (Mesa, Ariz.), John Cronin (Jericho, Vt.), Seth Cronin (Essex Junction, Vt.) and Michael John Baker (Georgia, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for autonomous surgical robot evolution and handoff for manual operation are disclosed. A robotic surgical system performs surgery and is controlled jointly by an artificial intelligence (AI) and a surgeon. The surgeon can perform the entire surgery or can alternatively allow the AI to control t...