US Patent Issued to AUGMEDICS on Sept. 16 for "Augmented-reality surgical system using depth sensing" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,595, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AUGMEDICS LTD. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

"Augmented-reality surgical system using depth sensing" was invented by Nissan Elimelech (Beerotaim, Israel), Stuart Wolf (Yokneam, Israel), Nitzan Krasney (Haifa, Israel) and Monica Marie Kuhnert (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for image-guided surgery. Some systems include a head-mounted unit, having a see-through augmented-reality display and a depth sensor, which is configured to generate depth data with respect to a region of interest (ROI) of a body of a patient that is viewed through the ...