ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,220, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Machine learning system for spinal surgeries" was invented by Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.), Myles Sullivan (Philadelphia), Carly Taubenkraut (Perkasie, Pa.) and Corbett McLaughlin (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinal surgery navigation system is disclosed for computer assisted navigation during spinal surgery. The spinal surgery navigation system is operative to obtain intra-operative feedback data and/or post-operative feedback data regarding spinal surgery outcome for a plurality of patients, and train a machine learning model based on t...