ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,926, issued on July 7, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Borough of Malvern, Pa.).

"Drill guide fixtures, cranial insertion fixtures, and related methods and robotic systems" was invented by Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia), Stephen Cicchini (North Wales, Pa.), Danielle Reinhard (Lafayette Hill, Pa.), Spiros Mantzavinos (Nashua, N.H.), James Cascarano (Cambridge, Mass.), Neil Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Raul Wirz (Medford, Mass.), Francisco Ponce (Phoenix), Patrick Senatus (Unionville, Conn.), Arnold Vardiman (San Antonio) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill guide fixture may be configured ...