US Patent Issued to NuVasive on Sept. 30 for "Robotic system and method for bone preparation for intervertebral disc prosthesis implantation" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,951, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).

"Robotic system and method for bone preparation for intervertebral disc prosthesis implantation" was invented by Yves Arramon (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Hovda (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michael Sherman (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for robotically preparing a disc space are provided for implantation of an intervertebral prosthetic disc. The system includes three-dimensional modeling to identify positions of vertebrae adjacent a surgical site and a disc selection interface in a computing system to allow the surgeon to select an i...