US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Dec. 30 for "Surgical tool systems and methods" (California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Colorado, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,101, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Surgical tool systems and methods" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Christopher Major (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Bartelme (Fort Collins, Colo.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.) and Stephen Cicchini (North Wales, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a surgical robot system may include an end-effector element configured for controlled movement and positioning and tracking of surgical instruments and objects relative to an image of a patient's anatomical structure. In some embodiments the...