US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Oct. 27 for "Sterilizable surgical device with battery switch" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,271, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Sterilizable surgical device with battery switch" was invented by Jonathan Mark Morgan (Biscayne Park, Fla.), Timothy Wade Perez (Plantation, Fla.), Fabian Riegelsberger (Umkirch, Germany), Jochen Breisacher (Teningen, Germany), Michael Schweizer (Freiburg, Germany), Daniel Kuhne (Freiburg, Germany), Felix Jung (Freiburg, Germany), Kana Nishimura (Baden-Baden, Germany) and Paul Hoekstra (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tracker assembly for use with a navigation system. The tracker assembly includes a tracker body defining a chamber...