US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Aug. 12 for "Surgical systems and methods for identifying tools guided by surgical robots" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,343, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Surgical systems and methods for identifying tools guided by surgical robots" was invented by Zenan Zhang (Weston, Fla.), Kevin Bechtold (Davie, Fla.) and Carl Gayle (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assisting users with accurate tool identification. A tool includes a tool feature, and a navigation system includes a localizer to detect a position of the tool feature. A memory stores identification data associated with a plurality of tools. Controller(s) is/are coupled to the navigation system, the memory and the display...