ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,676, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Spinal stenosis detection and generation of spinal decompression plan" was invented by Dany Junio (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting spinal stenosis is provided. The method may receive image data corresponding to a spine region of a patient. The method may also identify a spinal cord in the image data. The method may determine at least one compression of the spinal cord and may mark an anatomical element proximate to a location of the determined at least one compression to yield at least one marking. ...