US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 23 for "Methods providing bend plans for surgical rods and related controllers and computer program products" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,150, issued on June 23, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Methods providing bend plans for surgical rods and related controllers and computer program products" was invented by Sritam Parashar Rout (Dracut, Mass.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), Olivier Chappuis (Lutry, Switzerland), David Cleary (Somerville, Mass.), Samuel Paster (North Kingstown, R.I.), Michael Brauckmann (Woburn, Mass.) and Kyle VanLeer (Jeffersonville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems providing robotic bending used to bend a surgical rod are disclosed. Such systems may include a processor and memory coupled with the processor....