Asensus Surgical Us, Inc.

Asensus Surgical Europe S.a.r.l.

Caleb T Osborne

Kevin Andrew Hufford

Tal Nir

Lior Alpert

Dustin Vaughan

Nevo Yokev

In a system and method conveying suture force information in surgery, real times images of a surgical site are captured and displayed on a display. A suture is engaged using at least one surgical instrument, which in some cases is a robotic surgical instrument. The system determines a tension in the suture using force data obtained from force sensors associated with the instrument or a robotic manipulator used to manipulate the instrument, or using computer vision techniques applied to the captured images. An overlay is generated and displayed on the display depicting the determined tension.

Displaying suture force information in surgery

A system and method allow creation of surgical annotations during surgery. A digital image of a treatment site in a region of patient anatomy is captured using a camera and is displayed on an image display. The system displays an overlay marking an anatomic region of interest in the displayed image. During the course of the surgery, panning of the image results in the anatomic region of interest being outside the displayed field of view. In response to user input, the displayed image is subsequently panned such that the anatomic region of interest and the displayed overlay return to the displayed field of view.

Creating surgical annotations using anatomy identification

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Durham, NC, United States of America

Caleb T Osborne