US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on July 7 for "Robotic hand-held surgical instrument systems and methods" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,923, issued on July 7, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic hand-held surgical instrument systems and methods" was invented by Timothy J. Bozung (Belding, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings generally include a hand-held surgical robotic system for supporting a surgical tool, the handheld surgical robotic system comprising a hand-held portion, a tool support movably coupled to the hand-held portion, the tool support configured to support a surgical tool, a plurality of actuators operatively interconnecting the tool support and the hand-held portion, the plurality of actuators configured t...