US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA on Feb. 25 for "On-board tool tracking system and methods of computer assisted surgery" (American, Jordanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,828, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (Lincoln, Neb.).

"On-board tool tracking system and methods of computer assisted surgery" was invented by Hani Haider (Carter Lake, Iowa), Ibrahim Al-Shawi (Amman, Jordan) and Osvaldo Andres Barrera (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A number of improvements are provided relating to computer aided surgery utilizing an on tool tracking system. The various improvements relate generally to both the methods used during computer aided surgery and the devices used during such procedures. Other improvements relate to the structure of the tools us...