ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,369, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AUGMEDICS LTD. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).
"Mirroring in image guided surgery" was invented by Nissan Elimelech (Beerotaim, Israel), Stuart Wolf (Yokneam, Israel) and Nitzan Krasney (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system, including a head-mounted display worn by a system operator. A marker defines a plane when attached to a human subject. Optically reflective elements are disposed on the marker and on opposing sides of the plane in a non-symmetrical arrangement with respect to the plane. A memory stores a graphical representation of a tool used in a procedure performed on ...