ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,111, issued on July 8, was assigned to Mighty Oak Medical Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Patient-matched apparatus for use in robotic assisted surgical procedures and methods for using the same" was invented by George Frey (Englewood, Colo.), Caleb Voelkel (Lakewood, Colo.), Adam Jensen (Golden, Colo.) and Sean Starkman (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for robotic, computer-aided or virtual/augmented reality assisted procedures, including with use a of patient-specific or patient-matched, customized apparatus for assisting in various surgical procedures. In varying embo...