ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,085, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Systems, methods, and devices for verifying mechanical coupling between anatomical elements" was invented by Moshe Shoham (Hoshaya, Israel), Avi Turgeman (Beer Yaakov, Israel) and Yizhaq Shmayahu (Ramat HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises at least one processor and a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to: generate a first signal that causes a vibration device to vibrate, the vibration device being in force-transmitting contact with a first anatomi...