US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Oct. 28 for "Navigation systems and methods for reducing tracking interruptions during a surgical procedure" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,605, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Navigation systems and methods for reducing tracking interruptions during a surgical procedure" was invented by Donald W. Malackowski (Schoolcraft, Mich.) and Jose Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed involving a navigation system including a localizer and a tracker detected within a field-of-view of the localizer. In one example, a virtual line-of-sight boundary is generated based on a line-of-sight relationship between the tracker and localizer. Additionally, or alternatively, a vi...