US Patent Issued to Quantum Surgical on July 15 for "Robot equipped with an ultrasound probe for real-time guidance in percutaneous interventions" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,403, issued on July 15, was assigned to Quantum Surgical (Montpellier, France).

"Robot equipped with an ultrasound probe for real-time guidance in percutaneous interventions" was invented by Mathieu Sudre (Restinclieres, France), Lucien Blondel (Montpellier, France), Bertin Nahum (Castelnau-le-Lez, France) and Fernand Badano (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a medical robot comprising a robotic arm equipped with a tool guide for guiding a medical instrument along a trajectory defined by an entry point at the patient's skin and a target point at a lesion to be treated in an anatomical region of int...