ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,344, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).
"Surgical system with occlusion detection" was invented by Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.), Dennis Moses (Doral, Fla.) and Arthur Quaid (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes controlling a robotic system using a virtual boundary and based on optical tracking of a tracker, detecting a condition in which an optical detection device is occluded from detecting the tracker, and maintaining the virtual boundary if the condition persists for shorter than a predetermined period of time."
The patent was filed on Feb. 6, 2023, under Applicat...