US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on April 7 for "Apparatus for recording probe movement" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,001, issued on April 7, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Apparatus for recording probe movement" was invented by Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), Neil Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Weston Healy (Cambridge, Mass.), Sanjay M. Joshi (Andover, Mass.), Thomas Calloway (Pelham, N.H.) and Joshua Cige (Conshohocken, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining an extent of matter removed from a targeted anatomical structure are disclosed. The method includes acquiring an initial representation of a targeted anatomical structure and then removing matter from the targeted anatomical structure....