US Patent Issued to Mazor Robotics on Oct. 21 for "Spine stress map creation with finite element analysis" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,962, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Spine stress map creation with finite element analysis" was invented by Rakefet Rozen (Balfouria, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and techniques for creating a spine stress map are provided. The system may be configured to generate a multi-class segmentation for an anatomical element of a patient based on a plurality of magnetic resonance images of the anatomical element from a plurality of patients. Additionally, one or more stress maps may be generated based on simulating stresses on the anatomical element. In some embodiments, the simul...