US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for initial assessment warnings" (Florida, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,632, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for initial assessment warnings" was invented by Jason Otto (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Kelly Dunn (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a first trackable marker configured to be coupled to a first bone of a joint, a second trackable marker configured to be coupled to a second bone of the joint, and a tracking system configured to track a position of the first trackable marker and a position of the second trackable marker. A controller is configured to receive an input from a user specifying a user-i...