US Patent Issued to CUREXO on July 14 for "System and method for detecting a potential collision between a bone and an end-effector" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,261, issued on July 14, was assigned to CUREXO INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for detecting a potential collision between a bone and an end-effector" was invented by Micah Forstein (Fremont, Calif.) and Amit Sandhu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a potential collision between an end-effector and bystander anatomy is provided. A cut-file or a representation of an implant is registered to a position of a first bone, the registered cut-file defining at least one orientation for an end-effector axis to assume while physically modifying the first bone. Imaging data of bystander anatomy ...