US Patent Issued to INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods to perform robotic retraction and robotic distraction" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,700, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTELLIJOINT SURGICAL INC. (Kitchener, Canada).

"Systems and methods to perform robotic retraction and robotic distraction" was invented by Andre Novomir Hladio (Waterloo, Canada), Samantha Mccabe (Kitchener, Canada), Joseph Arthur Schipper (Kitchener, Canada) and Mark Pringle-Rigby (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for robotic retraction or robotic distraction are disclosed such as for a surgical procedure. An example system is a localization system to automatically position a trackable surgical retractor or distraction with respect to a patient comprising a pa...