US Patent Issued to INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for resecting bone using a planer and optionally using a robot to assist with placement and/or installation of guide pins" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,973, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC. (Kitchener, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for resecting bone using a planer and optionally using a robot to assist with placement and/or installation of guide pins" was invented by Joseph Arthur Schipper (Kitchener, Canada), Andre Novomir Hladio (Waterloo, Canada) and Quang Minh Tuan Le (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method to perform bone resection using a planer. Under guidance of a surgical navigation system, and, optionally, under command of a robotic system, a trackable surgical instrument is guided to a target pose on a target bone. T...