US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Oct. 21 for "System and method for surgical tool insertion using multiaxis force and moment feedback" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,981, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"System and method for surgical tool insertion using multiaxis force and moment feedback" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for detecting unexpected movement of a surgical instrument during a robot-assisted surgical procedure are provided. The surgical robot system may be configured to measure forces and torques experienced by the surgical instrument during the surgical procedure and determine if the forces and torques are within an acceptab...