US Patent Issued to MAKO SURGICAL on Oct. 6 for "Force measuring joint distraction lever" (Ohio, Florida, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,708, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MAKO SURGICAL CORP. (Weston, Fla.).

"Force measuring joint distraction lever" was invented by Jason Otto (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Mark Nadzadi (Batavia, Ohio), Radu Iorgulescu (Boca Raton, Fla.), Kevin Bechtold (Weston, Fla.) and Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a joint distractor configured to apply a distraction force to a first bone to distract a joint, a tracking system configured to track relative poses of the joint distractor and the first bone of the joint in contact with the joint distractor, and a computing system. The computing system is pr...