US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on March 24 for "Tracking apparatus for tracking a patient limb" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,483, issued on March 24, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Tracking apparatus for tracking a patient limb" was invented by Jose Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera (Freiburg, Germany), Christine Merz (Freiburg, Germany) and Peter Hess (Habsburg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking apparatus for tracking a bone of a patient limb is provided. The tracking apparatus includes a body configured to couple to the patient limb. The body includes first and second arms each including an exterior and opposing interior surface and opposing sides connecting the exterior and interior surfaces. The tracking apparatus ...