ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,244, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Surgical gantry and interface moveably interconnecting surgical table and gantry" was invented by Roy K. Lim (Memphis, Tenn.), Katharine E. Darling (Louisville, Colo.) and Mark C. Dace (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination of a surgical table, a gantry including surgical robotic arms, and an interface for moveably interconnecting a surgical table with the gantry is provided. The surgical table can support a patient thereon, the gantry can support one or more surgical robotic arms for performing and/or aiding the performance of surgery...