ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,154, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Autonomous robot tracking" was invented by Moshe Shoham (Hoshaya, Israel) and Yizhaq Shmayahu (Ramat HaSharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tracking the position of a surgical tool manipulated by a surgical robotic system, to determine that the tool is correctly positioned and orientated. Miniature 3-D tracking cameras are mounted on the end effector of the robotic system, one viewing markers on the surgical tool, and the other markers attached to the anatomy part being operated on. The initial spatial position and orientation of th...