ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,692, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Robotic arm navigation using virtual bone mount" was invented by Amir Keret (Atlit, Israel), Ziv Seemann (Beit Ytzhack, Israel), Ori Ben Zeev (Ramat HaSharon, Israel), Adi Sandelson (Givatayim, Israel), Gal Barazani (Tirat Carmel, Israel) and Nimrod Dori (Atlit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a processor; and a memory storing data thereon that, when processed by the processor, cause the processor to: determine, based on a navigation element of a first type and a nav...