US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 17 for "Surgical robotic automation with tracking markers" (Arizona, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,593, issued on June 17, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Surgical robotic automation with tracking markers" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Stephen Cicchini (North Wales, Pa.) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, Systems, and Methods for detecting a 3-dimensional position of an object, and surgical automation involving the same. The surgical robot system may include a robot having a robot base, a robot arm coupled to the robot base, and an end-effector coupled to the robot arm. The end-effector, surgical instruments, the patient, and/or other objects...