US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 23 for "Instruments for navigated orthopedic surgeries" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,186, issued on June 23, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Instruments for navigated orthopedic surgeries" was invented by Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia), Olivier Chappuis (Lutry, Switzerland), Szymon Kostrzewski (Lausanne, Switzerland), Benoit Brot (Lausanne, Switzerland), Peter Eckert (Renens, Switzerland), Stephen Cicchini (North Wales, Pa.), Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Jason Zappacosta (Philadelphia), Drew Mike (Phoenixville, Pa.), David Stumpo (Collegeville, Pa.) and Timothy Blackwell (Ft. Pierce, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for computer-assisted navigation and/or ro...