US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on April 15 for "Systems and method for smooth segmentation" (Indian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,666, issued on April 15, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and method for smooth segmentation" was invented by Sukhraj Singh (Mandi, India), Nitish Puri (Delhi, India) and Michael Kohnen (Heitersheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of smoothing a surface mesh includes determining first angles between a first direction and vectors normal to a plurality of faces defined in the surface mesh, determining a set of artifact vertices by including a first vertex of the surface mesh in the set of artifact vertices responsive to the first angles associated with faces adjacent to the first vertex satis...