ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,932, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Shaper for vertebral fixation rods" was invented by Edo Zucker (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Moshe Shoham (Hoshaya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for rod bending for use in robotic spinal surgery, enabling the correct bending of a fusion rod to match the shape required to accurately pass through the heads of the pedicle screws. The system uses data generated by information provided to the robot by the surgeon's preoperative plan, optionally augmented by feedback from the robot control system of deviations encountered intraoperatively. Such de...