US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on May 27 for "Computer controlled surgical rotary tool" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,671, issued on May 27, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Computer controlled surgical rotary tool" was invented by Brett Bell (Mendon, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary tool includes a tool body and a powered rotary cutting tooltip that is oriented and positioned relative to the tool body by a plurality of processor-controlled actuators that provide degrees of freedom. The processor uses a surgical tracking system to identify the pose of the tool body and the tooltip relative to a patient's anatomy ...