US Patent Issued to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION on June 3 for "Robotic surgery" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,118, issued on June 3, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).

"Robotic surgery" was invented by Jihad Kaouk (Gates Mills, Ohio), Nicholas Haas (Cleveland), Tara Nagle (Cleveland), Robb Colbrunn (Hinckley, Ohio), Callan Gillespie (Cleveland) and Keiran Cantilina (Lakewood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Teleoperative, partially automated, and fully automated robotic surgery systems and methods are described herein. These systems and methods relate to at least improvement of robotic movements, three dimensional tracking and pose correction for robots interacting with deformable objections, controlling and opti...