US Patent Issued to MAKO SURGICAL on July 21 for "Systems and methods for preparing a proximal tibia" (Florida, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,539, issued on July 21, was assigned to MAKO SURGICAL CORP. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for preparing a proximal tibia" was invented by Mark Nadzadi (Memphis, Tenn.), Ali Abbasi (Davie, Fla.), Amit Mistry (Weston, Fla.) and Jason Otto (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a bone to receive an implant component includes planning one or more surgical cuts configured to provide the bone with a curved intersection between two surfaces, applying a mechanical restraint to an arm holding a cutting tool based on the one or more surgical cuts, and performing, subject to the mechanical restraint and by...