US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Sept. 29 for "Anti-skiving guide tube and surgical system including the same" (Florida, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,017, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Anti-skiving guide tube and surgical system including the same" was invented by Radu Iorgulescu (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Amir A. Sharifi-Mehr (Bloomingdale, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system to facilitate a spinal procedure on a vertebral body includes a robotic manipulator including an arm and a tool holder. The tool holder defines a tool holder channel extending along a tool holder axis. The tool holder channel has a tool holder diameter. The surgical system also includes a guide tube configured to slide into the tool holder channel. Th...