US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on March 31 for "Surgical robotic system with compliance mechanism" (Missouri, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,957, issued on March 31, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Surgical robotic system with compliance mechanism" was invented by David Gene Bowling (Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, N.M.) and Ezra Johnson (Reeds Spring, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a robotic manipulator and an end effector supported by the robotic manipulator. The end effector includes a surgical tool to interact with an anatomy and a compliance mechanism. The compliance mechanism enables the surgical tool to move relative to the robotic manipulator in response to external forces/torques applied to the surgical tool by the...