ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,641, issued on June 10, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Artificial intelligence for robotic surgery" was invented by Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.), Surag Mantri (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kevin Staid (Lowell, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for robotic surgery comprises a processor configured with instructions to receive patient data from treated patients, receive surgical robotics data for each of the plurality of treated patients, and output a treatment plan of a patient to be treated in response to the patient data and the surgical robotics data. This approach has the adva...