ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,117, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Stryker Australia PTY LTD (Artarmon, Australia).
"Systems and methods for assisting surgery" was invented by Mario Llewellyn Strydom (Riverview, Australia), Jonathan Michael Roberts (Toowong, Australia), Ross William Crawford (Brisbane, Australia) and Anjali Tumkur Jaiprakash (Ashgrove, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems and methods for assisting with procedures involving a subject's limb, such as a leg associated with a knee or hip joint. One or more robotic arms move and position the limb to manipulate the joint. The robotic arm(s) can be controlled based on a sensed jo...