US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Feb. 10 for "Robotic rod benders and related mechanical and motor housings" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,109, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Robotic rod benders and related mechanical and motor housings" was invented by Samuel Paster (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), Olivier Chappuis (Lutry, Switzerland), David Cleary (Somerville, Mass.), Sritam Parashar Rout (Dracut, Mass.), Michael Brauckmann (Woburn, Mass.) and Kyle VanLeer (Jeffersonville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robotic rod benders are disclosed including a motor housing and a mechanical housing coupled with the motor housing. The motor housing may include first and second rod feeding/rotating motors,...