US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Sept. 9 for "Surgical planning guidance and learning" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,985, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Surgical planning guidance and learning" was invented by Carinne Granchi (Weston, Fla.), Jason Otto (Plantation, Fla.), Thomas M. Coon (Redding, Calif.), Michael Ballash (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Tamas Erdos (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving the development of an initial surgical plan includes receiving input information, developing an initial surgical plan based upon the input information, and allowing a user to customize the initial surgical plan by providing input related to modifications to the initial surgic...