US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for navigating a pin guide driver" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,929, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for navigating a pin guide driver" was invented by Olivier Chappuis (Lutry, Switzerland), Szymon Kostrzewski (Lausanne, Switzerland), Timothy Blackwell (Ft. Pierce, Fla.), Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia), Stephen Cicchini (North Wales, Pa.), Peter Eckert (Renens, Switzerland), Keerthighaan Kanagasegar (Norristown, Pa.), Jason Zappacosta (Philadelphia) and Khiem Pham (Chalfont, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for resecting a knee joint using a navigated pin guide driver system. The navigated pin guide driver system co...