ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,140, issued on March 18, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Methods for performing medical procedures using a surgical robot" was invented by Neil Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Nicholas Theodore (Ruxton, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a medical robot system including a robot coupled to an end-effectuator element with the robot configured to control movement and positioning of the end-effectuator in relation to the patient. One embodiment is a method for removing bone with a robot system comprising: taking a two-dimensional slice through a computed tomography scan volume of target an...