US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 17 for "Systems and methods for robot-assisted knee arthroplasty surgery" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,391, issued on June 17, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for robot-assisted knee arthroplasty surgery" was invented by Olivier Chappuis (Lutry, Switzerland) and Szymon Kostrzewski (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade adapter couples a sagittal saw handpiece to an end effector of a robot to actuate a saw blade. The end effector has a first mechanical interface, and the sagittal saw handpiece has a second mechanical interface. The blade adapter includes a first coupling mechanism at a first side of the blade adapter and a second coupling mechanism at a second side of the ...