US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on June 30 for "Surgical systems and methods for guiding robotic manipulators" (New Mexico, Connecticut, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,434, issued on June 30, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Surgical systems and methods for guiding robotic manipulators" was invented by Rishabh Khurana (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), David Gene Bowling (Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, N.M.) and Matthew Thompson (Woodbridge, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system comprising a tool for engaging a target site, a manipulator configured to support the tool, and a sensing system configured to detect one or more system conditions associated with one or more of the tool, the manipulator, the target site, or combinations thereof. A controller is coupled to the manipu...