US Patent Issued to Mako Surgical on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for joint balancing" (American, New Zealander, Dutch, Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,017, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Mako Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for joint balancing" was invented by Matthew Carter (Auckland, New Zealand), Matthew L. Walker (Remuera, New Zealand), Xiangyi Liu (Mahwah, N.J.), Azhar Ali (West Orange, N.J.), Daniele De Massari (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Thies Wuestemann (Freiburg, Germany), Sietske Witvoet (Delfgauw, Netherlands), Emily Hampp (Far Hills, N.J.), Jason Karl Otto (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Kelly Dunn (Burlington, Vt.), Kevin Bechtold (Davie, Fla.) and Jenna Lyon (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a balancer algorithm to perform joint bal...