US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on April 14 for "Surgical robotic automation with tracking markers and controlled tool advancement" (Arizona, Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,443, issued on April 14, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Surgical robotic automation with tracking markers and controlled tool advancement" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.) and Nicholas A. Theodore (Ruxton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for aiding insertion of a surgical implant by providing a threaded guide tube configured to engage a threaded surgical instrument such that an end-effector of a robot may provide force to drive the surgical implant into a patient. In addition, devices, systems, and methods relating to a d...