US Patent Issued to Mako Surgical on June 10 for "Assessment of soft tissue tension in hip procedures" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,615, issued on June 10, was assigned to Mako Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Assessment of soft tissue tension in hip procedures" was invented by William Donnelly (Chermside, Australia) and Matthew Thompson (Woodbridge, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a method of evaluating soft tissue tension surrounding a hip of a patient using navigation and software to track positions of the femur and a pelvis of the patient in real time. The method begins with intra-operative reduction of a femoral implant into an acetabulum of a patient and retrieval of first coordinates of a femoral hea...