ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,443, issued on April 1, was assigned to BRAINLAB AG (Munich).

"Method for registering a virtual representation of a patient anatomy with a coordinate system of a physical patient anatomy" was invented by Christoffer Hamilton (Munich) and Nils Frielinghaus (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for registering a virtual representation of a patient anatomy with a coordinate system of a physical patient anatomy, comprising displaying first overlap data in a head-mounted device, wherein the first overlap data describe from a first perspective onto the physical patient anatomy a first visual overl...