US Patent Issued to MAKO SURGICAL on July 7 for "Dynamic gap capture and flexion widget" (Florida, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,918, issued on July 7, was assigned to MAKO SURGICAL CORP. (Weston, Fla.).

"Dynamic gap capture and flexion widget" was invented by Jason Otto (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Kelly Dunn (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Kevin Bechtold (Weston, Fla.) and Emerson Tucker (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a tracking system configured to obtain data indicative of a pose of a first bone of a joint and a pose of a second bone of the joint, a display device configured to display a graphical user interface, and circuitry configured to determine an acceptable range of flexion angles of the joint for a gap capture step, determi...