{
  "patent_number": "US 12734000",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "AI-Guided Surgery Using Touch Sensors and Machine Learning",
  "original_title": "Computer assisted surgery navigation using intra-operative tactile sensing feedback through machine learning system",
  "summary": "This patent describes a system that uses touch sensors on surgical tools and artificial intelligence to give real-time guidance to surgeons or robots during an operation.",
  "what_it_does": "This system provides computer-assisted navigation during surgery by using a 'sensor circuit' to gather 'intra-operative tactile sensing data'. This data indicates a 'sensed characteristic' of a surgical tool as it touches a patient's anatomy within the surgical site. A 'processing circuitry' then feeds this touch data into a 'machine learning model' to generate 'intra-operative navigated guidance data'. This guidance can be shown on a 'display device' for a surgeon or used to control the movement of a 'surgical robot'. For example, if a surgeon is removing a tumor, the tool's sensors could detect the difference in texture between healthy and diseased tissue, and the AI would then highlight the tumor's exact boundary on a screen or guide a robot to cut precisely.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover surgical navigation systems that rely solely on visual data (like cameras or X-rays) without incorporating tactile feedback.",
    "Does not cover systems that use tactile sensing but process the data with traditional, rule-based algorithms rather than a 'machine learning model'.",
    "Does not cover systems where tactile data is used for post-operative analysis or training, rather than 'intra-operative navigated guidance'.",
    "Does not cover systems that provide guidance without a 'display device' or direct control of a 'surgical robot'.",
    "Does not cover systems where the tactile sensing data is not specifically about a 'tool contacting a location on patient anatomy'."
  ],
  "filed": "2023-01-20",
  "granted": "2026-09-15",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": null,
  "holder_url": null,
  "inventors": [],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "medical_devices",
    "robotics",
    "ai_ml",
    "software"
  ],
  "abstract": "A surgery navigation system is disclosed for computer assisted navigation during surgery. The surgery navigation system includes processing circuitry that is operative to obtain from a sensor circuit, intra-operative tactile sensing data indicating a sensed characteristic of a tool contacting a location on patient anatomy within a surgical site. The processing circuitry is further operative to process the intra-operative tactile sensing data through a machine learning model to generate intra-operative navigated guidance data, and to provide the intra-operative navigated guidance data to a display device and/or to a surgical robot to control movement of the tool.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12734000/computer-assisted-surgery-navigation-using-intra-operative-tactile-sensing",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/12734000/computer-assisted-surgery-navigation-using-intra-operative-tactile-sensing/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12734000",
  "relatedPatents": []
}