ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,445, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Robotic surgical system and method" was invented by Peter L. Bono (Bingham Farms, Mich.), James D. Lark (West Bloomfield, Mich.), John S. Scales (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Thomas J Lord (South Milwaukee, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an apparatus, system and method for providing robotically assisted surgery that involves the removal of bone or non-fibrous type tissues during a surgical procedure, in particular with assistance from real-time ultrasound images from an ultrasound probe. The system utilizes a multi-axis robot hav...