US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 17 for "Drill guide fixtures, cranial insertion fixtures, and related methods and robotic systems" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,476, issued on June 17, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Drill guide fixtures, cranial insertion fixtures, and related methods and robotic systems" was invented by Neil Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill guide fixture may be configured to prepare a skull for attachment of a cranial insertion fixture. The drill guide fixture may include a central drill guide and a bone anchor guide at a base of the drill guide fixture. The central drill guide may define a central drill guide hole therethrough, wherein the central drill guide hole has a first o...