ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,781, issued on April 22, was assigned to TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).
"2D-image guided robotic distal locking system" was invented by Gangtie Zheng (Beijing), Shijie Zhu (Beijing), Zhe Zhao (Beijing) and Yongwei Pan (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 2D image-guided surgical robot system for distal locking operations includes surgical image acquisition equipment, a robot arm, a robot end effector attached to the robot arm, and a remote operation workstation. To perform a distal locking operation, the position of the image acquisition device is adjusted to obtain a round outline of a lockhole in the image. A distortion correct...