US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on June 30 for "End effectors and methods for driving tools guided by surgical robotic systems" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,437, issued on June 30, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"End effectors and methods for driving tools guided by surgical robotic systems" was invented by Peter L. Ebbitt (Boca Raton, Fla.), Oscar Williams (Foster City, Calif.), Victor Soto (Coral Gables, Fla.), Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.), Xiao H. Gao (Plantation, Fla.), Kana Nishimura (Baden-Baden, Germany) and Ezra Johnson (Reeds Spring, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems and methods involve a surgical robot and an end effector attached to the surgical robot. The end effector includes a drive assembly, a manual interface, a trigger assembly, and a...