US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for identifying and tracking physical objects during a robotic surgical procedure" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,834, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for identifying and tracking physical objects during a robotic surgical procedure" was invented by Patrick Roessler (Merzhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems and methods for preventing collision of a cutting instrument with a retractor. A robotic device includes a robotic arm to support and move the cutting instrument. A vision device is attached to the robotic device or the cutting instrument such that the vision device is movable by the robotic device. A control system controls the robotic device to move the...