MAKO Surgical Corp.
Michael Apffel has extensive experience in the field of engineering, particularly in service roles within the medical and marine industries. Currently serving as a Senior Field Service Engineer at MAKO Surgical Corp. since February 2010, Michael has built on an impressive tenure at Carl Zeiss Meditec from 1988 to 2010, also in a Senior Field Service Engineer position. Earlier in Michael's career, a role as a Field Service Engineer at Sperry Marine Systems from January 1977 to March 1988 provided foundational experience in the field.
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MAKO Surgical Corp.
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MAKO Surgical Corp. is a medical device company that markets its advanced robotic solution and implants for minimally invasive orthopedic knee procedures. The RIO® Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System includes a platform that utilizes tactile-resistance and patient-specific visualization to prepare the knee joint for the insertion and alignment of resurfacing implants through a keyhole incision. This FDA-cleared surgeon-interactive robotic arm system allows surgeons to provide an innovative tissue-sparing bone resurfacing therapy called MAKOplasty ® to a large, yet underserved patient-specific population suffering from early to mid-stage osteoarthritis knee disease. MAKO has an intellectual property portfolio of more than two hundred licensed or owned patent applications relating to the areas of computer assisted surgery, haptics, robotics, and implants.