US Patent Issued to Stryker on Dec. 23 for "Surgical systems and methods for determining breakthrough depth of cutting tools" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,181, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical systems and methods for determining breakthrough depth of cutting tools" was invented by Rahul Sharma (Gurgaon, India) and Trevor Jonathan Lambert (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system for determining breakthrough depth of a bore in a bone passing through a proximal cortical layer of bone and a distal cortical layer of bone. The surgical system includes an instrument for coupling to a cutting tool. A sensor is coupled to the instrument to generate one or more depth measurements of the cutting tool as the cutting tool cuts thro...