ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,987, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Orthosoft ULC (Montreal).
"Instruments for robotic knee revision" was invented by Brian Edward Roach (Osceola, Ind.), Yann Facchinello (Prevost, Canada) and Daniel Moore (Blainville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for registering a bone for a robotic knee arthroplasty with a surgical robot can include a plate and a registration device. The plate can be engageable with the bone and can include a lateral portion, a medial portion, and a hinge. The registration device can be connected to the plate and can be configured to interface with the surgical robot for registration of the p...