US Patent Issued to PROCEPT BioRobotics on June 17 for "Fiducial systems for probe tracking and identification" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,574, issued on June 17, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fiducial systems for probe tracking and identification" was invented by Peter Bentley (Reno, Nev.), Nishey Wanchoo (San Mateo, Calif.) and Qingxiang Ke (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a position or an orientation of a probe across a drape may include a fiducial assembly that may be coupled to the probe though a drape. The fiducial assembly may include a base, a coupling attached to the base which may be configured to couple the fiducial assembly to the probe across the drape, and one or more fiducials attac...