ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,181, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Surgical robotic system" was invented by Moshe Shoham (Hoshaya, Israel), Eliyahu Zehavi (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yossi Bar (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgical system is provided. An illustrative robotic surgical system includes a base having a known position relative to an operating table; an end effector configured to hold and align a surgical tool for performing a procedure on a subject on said operating table; at least one robotic arm connecting said base with said end effector; and a target attached to the end effector, where...