US Patent Issued to Stryker on Feb. 3 for "Robotic hand-held surgical instrument systems and methods" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,156, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Robotic hand-held surgical instrument systems and methods" was invented by Phillip Bryce Michaelson (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings provide a hand-holdable body (14) adapted to be freely holdable by a hand of a user; and a trajectory assembly operatively connected with the hand-holdable body, the trajectory assembly including: a shaft (76) extending from the hand-holdable body; a pivot frame (26) coupled with the shaft. The trajectory assembly includes a guide member (20) pivotally connected with the pivot frame; a support me...