US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Oct. 28 for "Surgical robotic automation with tracking markers and controlled tool advancement" (Arizona, Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,609, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Surgical robotic automation with tracking markers and controlled tool advancement" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.) and Nicholas Theodore (Ruxton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for aiding insertion of a surgical implant by providing a threaded guide tube configured to engage a threaded surgical instrument such that an end-effector of a robot may provide force to drive the surgical implant into a patient. In addition, devices, systems, and methods relating to a dilato...