US Patent Issued to Mazor Robotics on March 3 for "Bone entry point verification systems and methods" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,444, issued on March 3, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Bone entry point verification systems and methods" was invented by Dany Junio (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Moshe Shoham (Hoshaya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying a bone entry point includes receiving a surgical plan that defines a target bone entry point and a first portion of a bone surface at least partially surrounding the target bone entry point; positioning an imaging device near an identified bone entry point; receiving, from the imaging device, an image of a second portion of the bone surface surrounding the identified...