US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on March 31 for "Robotic surgical system with illumination device to indicate mounting assembly installation condition" (Michigan, Indiana, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,966, issued on March 31, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Robotic surgical system with illumination device to indicate mounting assembly installation condition" was invented by James E. Flatt (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Robert Dodde (Portage, Mich.), Jonathan Boyer (Galesburg, Mich.), Larry Douglas O'Cull (Westfield, Ind.), Victor Soto (Coral Gables, Fla.) and Christopher Wayne Jones (Kokomo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems and methods involve a robotic arm with a first mounting portion that releasably receives a sterile barrier assembly and a second mounting portion associated with a surgical compon...