US Patent Issued to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. on April 21 for "Surgical system for cutting an anatomical structure according to at least one target plane" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,167, issued on April 21, was assigned to DePuy Ireland UnLtd. Co. (Ringaskiddy, Ireland).

"Surgical system for cutting an anatomical structure according to at least one target plane" was invented by Jonathan Schers (Gieres, France) and Daniel Girardeau-Montaut (Gieres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system for cutting an anatomical structure (F, T) of a patient according to at least one target plane defined in a coordinate system of the anatomical structure comprises: (i) a robotic device (100) comprising: -an end effector comprising a cutting tool or a cutting block, -an actuation unit (4) comprising from three to...