US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on July 1 for "Systems and methods for guiding a revision procedure" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,093, issued on July 1, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for guiding a revision procedure" was invented by Viktor Krebs (Weston, Fla.), Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.), Snehal Kasodekar (Weston, Fla.), Matt Harrow (Weston, Fla.), Jienan Ding (Weston, Fla.), Ta-Cheng Chang (Weston, Fla.), Min Wu (Weston, Fla.), Jean Gonzalez (Weston, Fla.) and Peter Ebbitt (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intraoperatively augmenting a revision implant includes removing a primary implant from a bone, intraoperatively determining a size of a defect of the bone, intraoperatively cutting a bone fil...