US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 26 for "System and method for automated image-guided robotic intraocular surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,810, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"System and method for automated image-guided robotic intraocular surgery" was invented by Tsu-Chin Tsao (Los Angeles), Jean-Pierre Hubschman (Los Angeles), Cheng-Wei Chen (Los Angeles), Yu-Hsiu Lee (Los Angeles) and Matthew Gerber (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes: (1) an imaging device configured to acquire imaging data of a surgical site; (2) a surgical manipulator configured to hold a surgical tool; and (3) a controller connected to the imaging device and the surgical manipulator, wherein the...