US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Sept. 30 for "Use of robotic surgical data for training" (Pennsylvania, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,953, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Use of robotic surgical data for training" was invented by Branislav Jaramaz (Pittsburgh) and Daniel Farley (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for utilizing robotic surgical data for providing surgical training is disclosed. The method includes collecting, by a computing device, data related to a surgical procedure from one or more components of a computer-assisted surgical system. At least one of the one or more components is a r...