US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for robotic soft tissue evaluation" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,861, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for robotic soft tissue evaluation" was invented by Jose Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera (Freiburg, Germany), Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.) and Matt Harrow (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of robotically evaluating soft tissue characteristics of a joint includes measuring, by a robotic device, information about a joint during a controlled range of motion manipulation of the joint; determining a motion limit of the joint, using the information about the joint measured during the controlled range of motion manipulat...