US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on May 13 for "Robotic surgical systems" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,682, issued on May 13, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Robotic surgical systems" was invented by Szymon Kostrzewski (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system for performing surgery, the system includes a robotic arm having a force and/or torque control sensor coupled to the end-effector and configured to hold a first surgical tool. The robotic system further includes an actuator that includes controlled movement of the robotic arm and/or positioning of the end-effector. The system further includes a tracking detector having optical markers for real time detection of (i) surgi...