US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for guiding movement of a tool" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,003, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for guiding movement of a tool" was invented by David Gene Bowling (Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, N.M.), Richard Thomas DeLuca (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Michael Dale Dozeman (Portage, Mich.), Patrick Roessler (Merzhausen, Germany), Michael Ferko (Warwick, N.Y.), Gregory Garcia (Parkland, Fla.) and Rishabh Khurana (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for guiding movement of a tool. The system includes a tool and a manipulator. A guide handler obtains a target state for the tool and generates virtua...