US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on April 22 for "Robotic surgical system with slingshot prevention" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,506, issued on April 22, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic surgical system with slingshot prevention" was invented by Andrei Danilchenko (Miami) and Abdullah Abbasi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a controller and a robotic arm configured to hold a surgical tool at a distal end of the robotic arm. The controller is configured to define, based on a surgical plan, a target pose relative to a tracked position of an anatomical feature, generate a planned path for moving the surgical tool held by the robotic arm from a first pose to the target pose, output control signals conf...