US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITEIT GENT on Sept. 9 for "Patient specific robotic bone implant positioning" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,999, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium).

"Patient specific robotic bone implant positioning" was invented by Stijn Herregodts (Geraardsbergen, Belgium) and Jan Victor (Knokke-Heist, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system is provided for assisting during bone surgery, adapted to control the position of a limb. The robotic system includes a robotic arm connected to a fixation device for rigidly connecting the distal bone to the robotic arm and allowing movement in six degrees of freedom. Specifically, the fixation device provides at least two fixation points to the distal bone. The f...