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Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2020
Applicant:

Asensus Surgical Us, Inc., Durham, NC (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Andrew Hufford, Cary, NC (US);

Nicholas J Bender, Raleigh, NC (US);

Alexander John Maret, Apex, NC (US);

Matthew Robert Penny, Holly Springs, NC (US);

Paul Wilhelm Schnur, Pipersville, PA (US);

Dustin Owen Vaughan, Raleigh, NC (US);

Sevan Abashian, Morrisville, NC (US);

Michael Okyen, Morrisville, NC (US);

Assignee:

Asensus Surgical US, Inc., Durham, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/37 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/37 (2016.02); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2057 (2016.02); A61B 2090/372 (2016.02);
Abstract

A surgical robotic system includes at least one eye tracking system positioned detect the direction of at least one user's gaze. Input derived from the eye tracking system may be used to enter commands to the surgical robotic system depending on the directions of the gaze detected or other aspects of the gaze such as pupil dilation or speed of eye movement.


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