US Patent Issued to Think Surgical on May 6 for "Active robotic pin placement in total knee arthroplasty" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,322, issued on May 6, was assigned to Think Surgical Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Active robotic pin placement in total knee arthroplasty" was invented by Daniel P. Bonny (Fremont, Calif.), Joel Zuhars (Fremont, Calif.), Stephen M. Howell (Fremont, Calif.), Timothy Pack (Fremont, Calif.), Kyle Kuznik (Fremont, Calif.) and Babak Kianmajd (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device is provided includes a hand-held portion with a working portion movably coupled to the hand-held portion for driving a tool. Actuators are provided for moving the working portion with each of the actuators having a travel range. An indicato...