US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Nov. 11 for "Robotic surgical systems and methods for mitigating skiving between rotary cutting tool and cortical bone" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,442, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic surgical systems and methods for mitigating skiving between rotary cutting tool and cortical bone" was invented by Jamil Elbanna (San Diego), Michael Prieto (Miami Springs, Fla.), Vijay Subramanian (Weston, Fla.) and Jienan Ding (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems and methods involve manipulation of a bone. A robotic manipulator supports and moves a surgical tool that has a cutting bur rotatable about a cutting axis. Controller(s) control the manipulator to align the cutting axis to a target axis associated with the bone and...