ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,683, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Tracking soft tissue changes intraoperatively" was invented by Yizhaq Shmayahu (Ramat HaSharon, Israel) and Jeetendra S. Bharadwaj (Erie, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting motion of soft tissue are provided. An illustrative method is described to include attaching a flexible material to an object, where the flexible material includes one or more tracking markers distributed thereon and where the object includes soft tissue. The method is also disclosed to include obtaining a first image of the object that includes the o...