US Patent Issued to Zimmer on Oct. 21 for "Protective resection guide for robotically assisted arthroplasty" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,900, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Protective resection guide for robotically assisted arthroplasty" was invented by David Miller (Warsaw, Ind.) and Kaitlyn Lasko (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting guide for a robotic surgical system can include a cutting block defining a guide surface to guide a cutting instrument along a trajectory, an arm connected to the cutting block to couple the cutting guide to the robotic surgical system, and a first retractable shield configured to extend from a first retracted position clear of the trajectory to a second deployed position within the tra...