ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,134, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).
"Kinematically aligned robotic total knee arthroplasty" was invented by Joseph Maratt (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method may use a robotic arm to perform a range of motion test for use in generating information related to kinematic alignment in a total or partial knee arthroplasty. A method may include controlling a robotic arm to move a tibia throughout a range of motion for a knee. A series of measurements of gap distance for the knee may be used to determine a tibial resection location for the tibia. The method may include updatin...