US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on July 14 for "Robotic surgery system with plan-dependent surgical visualization" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,240, issued on July 14, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic surgery system with plan-dependent surgical visualization" was invented by Milan Ikits (Weston, Fla.), John Paulus (Pembroke Pines, Fla.), Ajeet Singh Yadav (Weston, Fla.) and Curtis McClarin (Saint Cloud, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a tool operable to modify a bone and circuitry programmed to orient a voxel grid relative to a model of the bone based on a planned bone modification and generate, using the voxel grid, a visualization of progress of the tool in executing the planned bone modification based on tracking ...