US Patent Issued to Orthosoft on Aug. 5 for "Devices and methods for posterior resection in robotically assisted partial knee arthroplasties" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,868, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Orthosoft ULC.

"Devices and methods for posterior resection in robotically assisted partial knee arthroplasties" was invented by Emily Gogarty (Montreal), Jean-Sebastien Merette (Mont-St-Hiliare, Canada), Benoit Pelletier (Laval, Canada), Suntara Ly (Longueuil, Canada), Emmanuelle Bouvier (Val-David, Canada), Adam H. Sanford (Minneapolis) and Jess H. Lonner (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of positioning posterior resection guides in a three-dimensional coordinate system using robotic arms to perform partial knee arthroplasties comprises connecting a first tracking device for...