US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Feb. 24 for "Robotic spine surgery system and methods with haptic interface" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,132, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic spine surgery system and methods with haptic interface" was invented by David Gene Bowling (Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, N.M.), Bojan Gospavic (Boca Raton, Fla.), Christopher W. Jones (Kokomo, Ind.), Greg McEwan (Mattawan, Mich.), Lucas Gsellman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Kana Nishimura (Baden-Baden, Germany) and Weiyi Ding (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques including a robotic manipulator including a surgical tool to interface with and rotate the screw about a rotational axis. A haptic device includes an actuat...