US Patent Issued to Zimmer on July 22 for "Soft tissue balancing in articular surgery" (Canadian, French, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,544, issued on July 22, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Soft tissue balancing in articular surgery" was invented by Pierre Couture (Montreal), Alain Richard (Lachine, Canada), Olivier Boisvert (Montreal), Emily Gogarty (Montreal), Louis-Philippe Amiot (Montreal), Sebastien Parratte (Marseilles, France), Di Li (LaSalle, Canada) and Dugal James (Bendigo, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may be used to perform robot-aided surgery. A system may include a robotic controller to monitor a position and orientation of an end effector coupled to an end of a robotic arm. The robotic controller may apply ...