US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Aug. 5 for "System for a surveillance marker in robotic-assisted surgery" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,916, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"System for a surveillance marker in robotic-assisted surgery" was invented by Jeffrey Forsyth (Cranston, R.I.), Sanjay M. Joshi (Andover, Mass.) and Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for providing a surveillance marker configured to detecting movement of a dynamic reference base attached to a patient a robot-assisted surgical procedure are provided. The surveillance marker and the dynamic reference base are connected to a bony structure independent of each other."

The patent was filed on March 19, 2...