ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,771, issued on June 24, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Augmented reality navigation systems for use with robotic surgical systems and methods of their use" was invented by Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), Jeffrey Forsyth (Cranston, R.I.), Neil Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Sanjay Joshi (Andover, Mass.), Bessam Al Jewad (Madbury, N.H.), Weston Healy (Cambridge, Mass.), Christine Russ (Stoneham, Mass.) and Ken Jones (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to augmented reality navigation systems and methods of their use that, inter alia, address the need for systems ...