US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Dec. 9 for "Preoperative planning and associated intraoperative registration for a surgical system" (New Jersey, Florida, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,031, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp..

"Preoperative planning and associated intraoperative registration for a surgical system" was invented by Jason Karl Otto (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Abdullah Zafar Abbasi (Plantation, Fla.), Milan Ikits (Davie, Fla.), Daniel Perez (Plantation, Fla.), Shang Mu (Princeton, N.J.), Xiping Li (Weston, Fla.) and Ta-Cheng Chang (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure may involve a method of generating resection plane data for use in planning an arthroplasty procedure on a patient bone. The method may include: obtaining patient data associated with at least a ...