US Patent Issued to ORTHOSOFT on March 4 for "Integrated robotic surgery system with tourniquet system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,325, issued on March 4, was assigned to ORTHOSOFT ULC (Montreal).

"Integrated robotic surgery system with tourniquet system" was invented by Pierre Couture (Montreal), Victor Cerda-Carvajal (Montreal), Andrew Freiberg (Weston, Mass.) and Matthew J. Mcdonell (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a tourniquet pressure may have a processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit. The system may obtain ultrasound readings indicative of a blood flow in a limb havi...