ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,999, issued on March 25, was assigned to AGADA MEDICAL LTD. (Kfar Vitkin, Israel).

"Planning spinal surgery using patient-specific biomechanical parameters" was invented by Samuel Shannon (Karmei Yosef, Israel), Adi Dagan (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Jacov Blank (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Or Meir David (Herzliya, Israel), Damon Eugene Mar (The Colony, Texas) and Isador Lieberman (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for evaluating the biomechanical properties of a subject's spine for the purpose of optimizing a potential surgical intervention by selecting or designing surgical hardware fora spinal correction p...