ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,441, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Torque sensor with decision support and related systems and methods" was invented by Ido Zucker (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a power tool that generates torque; a torque sensor for measuring a torque characteristic of the power tool; a user interface; at least one processor; and a memory. The memory stores instructions for execution by the at least one processor that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: receive torque data from the torque sensor, the torque data corresponding to the measure...