US Patent Issued to MAKO SURGICAL on Oct. 6 for "Surgical system for positioning prosthetic component and/or for constraining movement of surgical tool" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,774, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MAKO SURGICAL CORP. (Weston, Fla.).

"Surgical system for positioning prosthetic component and/or for constraining movement of surgical tool" was invented by Benny Hagag (Plantation, Fla.), Hyosig Kang (Weston, Fla.), Alon Mozes (Miami Beach, Fla.), Daniel Odermatt (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Brian D. Schmitz (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a robot arm, a shaft held by the robot arm at a mount between a first end of the shaft and a second end of the shaft, a power tool operable to provide a force at the first end of the shaft, and a control system p...