ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,141, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Systems and methods for work volume mapping to facilitate dynamic collision avoidance" was invented by Ido Zucker (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a processor; and a memory coupled with the processor and including data stored thereon that, when processed by the processor, enables the processor to: predict, at a first time, a motion of an object during a surgical procedure and at a second time following the first time; and update, based on the predicted motion...