ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,513, issued on April 15, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Devices, methods, and systems for robot-assisted surgery" was invented by Eli Zehavi (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Yonatan Ushpizin (Glil Yam, Israel), Ido Zucker (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Adi Ess (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a robotic arm in a robotic arm coordinate system, a camera in a fixed pose in a navigation coordinate system, at least one processor, and memory including instructions that when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to determine a pose of the robotic arm within the naviga...