US Patent Issued to Acclarent, Biosense Webster (Israel) on Feb. 4 for "User interface for image guided surgery system" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,737, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Acclarent Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) and Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"User interface for image guided surgery system" was invented by Fatemeh Akbarian (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Athanasios Papadakis (Newport Beach, Calif.), Jordan R. Trott (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Noam Racheli (Hadera, Israel), Itamar Bustan (Zichron Ya'acov, Israel) and Jetmir Palushi (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual camera may be positioned relative to a 3-D model of a patient anatomy in order to provide a virtual camera view of the surrounding anatomy and tracked surgical instrument...