US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Oct. 27 for "Articulating camera stand" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,287, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Articulating camera stand" was invented by David Cleary (Somerville, Mass.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.) and Kevin Zhang (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for detecting a position of an object with a robot surgical system having an articulable, separable camera stand. The surgical robot system may include a robot having a robot base with a robot arm and an end-effector coupled to the robot arm. The end-effector, surgical instruments, the patient, other objects, or any combination thereof, may be tracked vi...