US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for intra-operative pelvic registration" (Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,510, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for intra-operative pelvic registration" was invented by Sunil Gupta (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Ta-Cheng Chang (Weston, Fla.), Zenan Zhang (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Kevin Bechtold (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Matthew Thompson (Woodbridge, Conn.), Eric Branch (Weston, Fla.), Varun Chandra (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Zhu Wu (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for intra-operatively registering a pelvis comprising an acetabulum with a computer model of the pelvis in a coordinate system. The system may include: a) a surgica...