US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Jan. 27 for "Robotic surgical system with cut selection logic" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,805, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic surgical system with cut selection logic" was invented by Abdullah Abbasi (San Diego), Daniel Perez (Miami) and Jason Otto (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a surgical system includes obtaining a surgical plan containing a plurality of planned cuts, receiving a first cutting tool from a plurality of cutting tools at a surgical device, collecting a first checkpoint by tracking a probe as the probe contacts a first predefined point on the first cutting tool, collecting a second checkpoint by tracking the probe as ...