US Patent Issued to Brainlab on March 25 for "Articulated robotic platform" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,009, issued on March 25, was assigned to Brainlab AG (Munich).

"Articulated robotic platform" was invented by Balint Varkut (Munich) and Dirk Schottle (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An articulated robotic platform is provided as an end-actuator intended to be fitted to an articulated robotic arm. One use of the articulated robotic platform is to more accurately guide surgical tools during a surgical intervention making it possible to achieve positional accuracy on the level of millimeters or fractions of a millimeter. The articulated robotic platform includes support members attached to the patient or anchoring the articulat...