US Patent Issued to Mazor Robotics on May 13 for "System for position and process verification in computer assisted surgery" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,668, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"System for position and process verification in computer assisted surgery" was invented by Avi Turgeman (Beer Yaakov, Israel), Moshe Shoham (Hoshaya, Israel) and Eli Zehavi (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for accurate determination of the position of an anatomic part of a subject in robotic assisted image-based surgery, using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to determine the position and orientation of the anatomical part of the subject. The intrinsic drift of the IMU, which would make the IMU position measurements i...