ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,280, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Mazor Robotics Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Systems and methods for defining object geometry using robotic arms" was invented by Ido Zucker (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Avi Turgeman (Beer Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a processor; at least one robotic arm; and a memory storing data for processing by the processor that, when processed by the processor, cause the processor to: manipulate the at least one robotic arm when holding an object; and determine a configuration of the object based on a position of the ...