ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,112, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Retraction systems, assemblies, and devices" was invented by Ziv Seemann (Beit Ytzhack, Israel), Dor Kopito (Kibbutz Parod, Israel), Jaffar Hleihil (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Nimrod Dori (Atlit, Israel) and Ron Visbrot (Hadera, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retraction systems, assemblies, and devices for retracting an end unit are provided. A retraction assembly may be configured to move the end unit of a robot between a first state and a second state. A first signal may be received indicating a working condition. A first instruction may be generat...