US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for visibly communicating a condition to a tracker using remote illumination" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,152, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for visibly communicating a condition to a tracker using remote illumination" was invented by Jonathan Mark Morgan (Biscayne Park, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems and methods involve a tracker having at least one trackable component and a localizer configured to track states of the at least one trackable component. An illumination assembly is located remote from the tracker and is operable to direct a visible light. A controller is coupled to the localizer and to the illumination assembly. The controller is configured...