ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,184, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic systems and methods for mitigating undesired orientational motion of kinematic components" was invented by Rishabh Khurana (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system includes a kinematic chain defined by components of a manipulator and a surgical tool including an energy applicator. At least one controller identifies that one or more components of the kinematic chain other than the energy applicator is either experiencing or will experience an undesired orientational motion. The at least one controller changes ope...