US Patent Issued on July 15 for "Optimal midline setting method for surgical planning and navigation system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,390, issued on July 15.

"Optimal midline setting method for surgical planning and navigation system" was invented by Meng-Yen Chen (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chen-Jung Chang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimal midline setting method for a surgical planning and navigation system is implemented by a computer device of the surgical planning and navigation system according to operating instructions, and the method includes: creating a skull 3D model and an auxiliary object corresponding to the skull 3D model, and the auxiliary object correlating to an optimal symmetry plane generated through a quantifiable symmetry criter...