ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,956, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Smart surgical instruments" was invented by Patrick Murray (Collegeville, Pa.), Caelan Allen (North Wales, Pa.), Nicholas Meadows (Langhorne, Pa.) and George Yacoub (Lansdale, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smart surgical instruments, systems, and methods for correcting a spinal deformity. The smart instruments are configured to sense and measure data, for example, related to screw insertion torque, segmental and global spine stiffness, correction force, rod reduction force, spinal alignment, or other metrics, which provide objective intraoperative data ...