ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,205, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Black Forest Medical GmbH (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany).
"Head stabilization device with incorporated markers" was invented by Matthias E. Schuele (Freiburg, Germany), Sascha Kubis (Freiburg, Germany) and Roman Maier (Scheer, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head stabilization device or HFD includes a plurality of integrated markers. The HFD may be in the form of a skull clamp, vacuum bag, combinations thereof, or other supporting structure. The integrated markers include MRI markers detectable by an MRI scanner and fiducial markers detectable by a registration tool of a navigation sy...