ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,442, issued on Nov. 25, 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.), Snehal Kasodekar (Weston, Fla.) and Peter L. Ebbitt (Boca Raton, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spinal surgery systems and methods include a manipulator with a robotic arm and an end effector. A navigation system with a localizer tracks a patient and the manipulator. A control system registers, with the navigation system, a desired trajectory for a vertebra of the patient and detects that the end effector is within a predetermined distance t...