US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 2 for "System and method for surgical tool insertion using multiaxis force and moment feedback" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,610, issued on June 2, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"System and method for surgical tool insertion using multiaxis force and moment feedback" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for providing a degree of freedom to a guide tube associated with a robotic surgical system. The surgical robot system may be configured to have six degrees of freedom associated with a vertical lift, rotation about a shoulder, rotation about an elbow, roll of a forearm, pitch of the end-effector, and rotation of a guide ...