US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Nov. 11 for "Robot-mounted retractor system" (Pennsylvania, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,344, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Robot-mounted retractor system" was invented by Paden Troxell (Philadelphia), Andrew Berkowitz (Santa Clara, Calif.), James Cascarano (Cambridge, Mass.) and Stephen Cicchini (North Wales, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retractor mounting assembly including an end-effector having a body extending between first and second faces. The first face is configured for attachment to an interface plate on the robotic arm of a surgical robot. The second face defines an arm mount. An arm extending between first and second ends with the first end configured for atta...