US Patent Issued to Brainlab on June 10 for "Method and system for projecting an incision marker onto a patient" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,693, issued on June 10, was assigned to Brainlab AG (Munich).

"Method and system for projecting an incision marker onto a patient" was invented by Michael Bertram (Munich), Florian Glatz (Munich) and Georg Christian (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An incision marker is projected onto a patient using a movable gantry carrying a medical imaging system and at least one laser which is adjustable relative to the gantry. The medical imaging system is used for capturing a fluoroscopic or x-ray image of at least a part of the patient from a viewing direction. Then a virtual marker is set in the captured image in order to indicate a po...