US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Nov. 18 for "Robotic spine surgery system and methods" (Florida, New Mexico, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,017, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic spine surgery system and methods" was invented by Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.), Jienan Ding (Weston, Fla.), David Gene Bowling (Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, N.M.), Christopher Wayne Jones (Kokomo, Ind.), Greg McEwan (Mattawan, Mich.) and Lucas Gsellman (Medina, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems and methods involve a robotic manipulator with a force sensor and a surgical tool that holds a screw. The screw has a known thread geometry. A navigation system tracks a pose of a target anatomy. Controller(s) store the known thread geometry an...