ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,679, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Robotic positioning of a device" was invented by Marcin Arkadiusz Balicki (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alexandru Patriciu (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to robotic device positioning. By extending the robotic arm into the surgical field, a system is provided that automatically aligns an instrument following a plan, e.g., surgical plan, using only instrument tracking feedback. No tracking markers on the robot are required."
The patent was filed on Nov. 3, 2020, under Application No. 17/773,644.
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