US Patent Issued to MAKO SURGICAL on June 2 for "Surgical robotics system with mode switching" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,536, issued on June 2, was assigned to MAKO SURGICAL CORP. (Weston, Fla.).

"Surgical robotics system with mode switching" was invented by Jason Otto (Plantation, Fla.), Radu Iorgulescu (Weston, Fla.), Chris Lightcap (Davie, Fla.), Brian Schmitz (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Jason Wojcik (Weston, Fla.) and Carinne Cecile Granchi (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical method includes operating, by a surgical robot, in a first mode, detecting a crossing of an object from a first side of a boundary to a second side of the boundary, switching, in response to the crossing of the object from the first side of the boundary to the ...