ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,827, issued on April 22, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).
"System and method for surgical planning" was invented by Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.), Daniel Odermatt (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Alon Mozes (Miami Beach, Fla.), Chunyan Wu (Parkland, Fla.) and Miranda Jamieson (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a model of a bone of a patient, identifying a plurality of landmarks of the model of the bone, defining a plane of the patient, determining an axis based on the plurality of landmarks and the plane, and planning a planned pose of an implant relative to the bone based on a re...