US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Dec. 9 for "Methods for robotic assistance and navigation in spinal surgery and related systems" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,030, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Methods for robotic assistance and navigation in spinal surgery and related systems" was invented by Patrick Murray (Collegeville, Pa.), David Leff (Philadelphia), Albert Hill (Richboro, Pa.), John LaColla (West Chester, Pa.), Shruthi Muralidharan (Philadelphia) and Jeff Nichols (Medford, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical navigation system is provided to create a plan to correct a deformed spinal alignment. A processor is configured to obtain a first set of image data associated with a deformed alignment in a spine of a patient from at least one i...