US Patent Issued to PROCEPT BioRobotics on Sept. 23 for "Surgical probes for tissue resection with robotic arms" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,701, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Surgical probes for tissue resection with robotic arms" was invented by Kevin Patrick Staid (Lowell, Mass.), Surag Mantri (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy source is coupled to a probe mounted on a robotic arm, and a processor configured with instructions to release energy to resect tissue in coordination with movement of the robotic arm and probe. The tissue can be resected in accordance with a defined tissue resection volume that can be determined based on images of the pa...