US Patent Issued to Mazor Robotics on May 13 for "Method for verifying hard tissue location using implant imaging" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,762, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Method for verifying hard tissue location using implant imaging" was invented by Dany Junio (Brookline, Mass.) and Eli Zehavi (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low radiation, intra-operative method using two-dimensional imaging to register the positions of surgical implants relative to their pre-operative planned positions. Intraoperatively, a pair of two-dimensional fluoroscope images in different planes or a single three-dimensional image is acquired and compared to a set of three-dimensional preoperative images, to allow registration o...