ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,760, issued on June 16, was assigned to Visionsense Ltd. (Petah Tikva, Israel).

"System and method for determining tool positioning, and fiducial marker therefore" was invented by Achia Kronman (Pardes Hannah, Israel), Rami Cohen (Misgav Regional Council, Israel), Ohad Doron (Herzelia, Israel), Amit Ruf (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Daniella Ziv (Tel Aviv, Israel), Elisha Rabinovitz (Haifa, Israel), Gaetan Guerin (Lyons, France) and Tal Davidson (Yokneam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial orientation determining system includes an imaging device configured for obtaining an image of a surgical site, a surgical tool defining a ...