US Patent Issued to Think Surgical on Oct. 7 for "Bone registration methods for robotic surgical procedures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,679, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Think Surgical Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Bone registration methods for robotic surgical procedures" was invented by Yiyong Tan (Fremont, Calif.), Randall Hanson (Fremont, Calif.) and Aruna Gummalla (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to improve the point collection process during registration of a bone for a computer-assisted surgical procedure is provided. Based on bone digitization data, a simulation is performed to confirm the accuracy of the registration for different digitization regions. Results are tested to identify which digitization regions meet ...