US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Feb. 10 for "Ultrasound based multiple bone registration surgical systems and methods of use in computer-assisted surgery" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,137, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp..

"Ultrasound based multiple bone registration surgical systems and methods of use in computer-assisted surgery" was invented by Peter Zimmermann (Freiburg, Germany) and Raphael Prevost (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a surgical system for surgical registration of patient bones to a surgical plan. As part of its ability to perform the surgical registration, the system is configured to process an ultrasound image of patient bones, the ultrasound image including a bone surface for each of the patient bones. The system includes a computing device inclu...