US Patent Issued to MAKO SURGICAL on July 14 for "Robotic surgical system with recovery alignment" (California, New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,955, issued on July 14, was assigned to MAKO SURGICAL CORP. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic surgical system with recovery alignment" was invented by Abdullah Abbasi (San Diego), Amar Bhatt (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Andrei Danilchenko (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation of a robotically-assisted surgical system includes capturing a first pose of a surgical tool during the operation of the robotically-assisted surgical system, intraoperatively defining a target orientation for the surgical tool using the first pose of the surgical tool, and controlling a robotic device to automatically move the surgical tool to the target o...