ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,979, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"2D image-guided surgical robot system" was invented by Gangtie Zheng (Beijing), Shijie Zhu (Beijing), Yu Chen (Beijing), Qizhong Li (Beijing), Yongwei Pan (Beijing), Zhe Zhao (Beijing), Jiuzheng Deng (Beijing), Jianjin Zhu (Beijing) and Dawei He (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 2D image-guided surgical robot system for drilling operations includes surgical image acquisition equipment, robot positioning and drilling equipment, and a remote operation workstation. To perform a drilling operation, images of the surgery area are acquired with the image acquisit...