ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,196, issued on June 23, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"System for neuronavigation registration and robotic trajectory guidance, robotic surgery, and related methods and devices" was invented by Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia), Spiros Mantzavinos (Nashua, N.H.), Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Sanjay Joshi (Andover, Mass.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), James Cascarano (Cambridge, Mass.) and Justin Larson (Reading, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robot system includes a surgical robot, a robot arm connected to such surgical robot, and an end-effector connected to the robot arm. A regis...