ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,504, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Robotic surgical control system" was invented by Peter L. Bono (Bingham Farms, Mich.), James D. Lark (King of Prussia, Pa.), John S. Scales (Clinton Township, Mich.) and Thomas J. Lord (South Milwaukee, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention involves a system and method for controlling the movements of a multi-axis robot to perform a surgery at least on the spinal area of a human in vivo. The system includes controls and software coding to cause the robot to move in desired patterns to complete the surgery, which may include bone, disc and tissue ...