US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for preoperative planning and postoperative analysis of surgical procedures" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,832, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for preoperative planning and postoperative analysis of surgical procedures" was invented by Kevin Michael de Souza (Ilkley, Great Britain), Emily Hampp (Far Hills, N.J.) and Laura Scholl (Sparta, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining accuracy of a surgical procedure to implant an implant on a patient bone. The system including at least one computing device configured to perform the following steps. Receive preoperative patient data including preoperative images of the patient bone and planned implant position and...