ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,839, issued on April 22, was assigned to Orthosoft ULC (Montreal).
"End effector for robotic shoulder arthroplasty" was invented by Jean-Guillaume Abiven (Montreal), Karine Dupuis (Montreal) and Trong-Tin Nguyen (Laval, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system can include an end effector coupled to a robotic arm. A reamer operable to ream bone can be coupled to the end effector (e.g., via a retainer). The reamer can include a primary driveshaft and a cutting head. The primary driveshaft can be rotatable about a first axis of rotation and the cutting head can be rotatable about a second axis of rotation, for exam...