US Patent Issued to Quantum Surgical on Sept. 30 for "Augmented-reality navigation system for a medical robot" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,984, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Quantum Surgical (Montpellier, France).

"Augmented-reality navigation system for a medical robot" was invented by 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: "An augmented-reality navigation system is used to assist a practitioner during a surgical operation on an anatomical structure of interest of a patient. The operation is planned on a pre-operational medical image. The navigation system comprises a camera that is intended to be worn by the practitioner on his head, a display device for displ...