ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,886, issued on March 17, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Intraoperative rod generation based on auto implant detection" 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 improving spinal alignment parameters of a subject, by planning the shape of an intervertebral rod for attaching to previously implanted hardware whose positions and orientations are known from intraoperative images. Once the planned shape of the rod has been prepared, determining if, when attached to the inserted hardware, a spine configuration is achieved having acceptable values of s...