US Patent Issued to Mazor Robotics on May 13 for "Systems and methods for robotic collision avoidance using medical imaging" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,683, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Systems and methods for robotic collision avoidance using medical imaging" was invented by Adi Sandelson (Givatayim, Israel) and Nimrod Dori (Atlit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods according to embodiments of the present disclosure include: receiving registration data including information about a location of an anatomical element in a surgical environment; defining, based on the registration data, a three-dimensional (3D) volume in the surgical environment including the anatomical element; and controlling a robotic arm inside th...