US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on July 8 for "Techniques for modifying tool operation in a surgical robotic system based on comparing actual and commanded states of the tool relative to a surgical site" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,994, issued on July 8, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Techniques for modifying tool operation in a surgical robotic system based on comparing actual and commanded states of the tool relative to a surgical site" was invented by Douglas Alan Staunton (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Paul Hoekstra (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Michael Dale Dozeman (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system and method of operating the same. A manipulator supports and facilitates movement of a surgical tool along a tool path relative to a surgical site. A navigation system includes a localizer to monitor states of the manipulator an...