US Patent Issued to MAKO SURGICAL on Aug. 25 for "Surgical system for positioning prosthetic component and/or for constraining movement of surgical tool" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,516, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MAKO SURGICAL CORP. (Weston, Fla.).

"Surgical system for positioning prosthetic component and/or for constraining movement of surgical tool" was invented by Benny Hagag (Plantation, Fla.), Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.), Alon Mozes (Miami Beach, Fla.), Daniel Odermatt (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Brian D. Schmitz (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for registering a virtual model of a bone to the bone includes displaying, on the virtual model of the bone, a plurality of registration points indicating locations on the bone to be touched with a tracked probe, tracking positi...