ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,283, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Think Surgical Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Two degree of freedom system and method" was invented by Joel Zuhars (Fremont, Calif.) and Stan G. Shalayev (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to align a pin or drill a tunnel along a single line in space with a two degree of freedom (2-DOF) surgical device in a patient is provided. A plane is defined relative to a desired location for an implant or tunnel on a bone, where the implant or tunnel has an axis. An end-effector of the 2-DOF surgical device is aligned coincident with the plane, and the 2-DOF surgical device is m...