ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,445, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Brainlab SE (Munich).
"Method of sampling relevant surface points of a subject" was invented by Ferdinand Storch (Munich) and Jannik Christ (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a registration device for sampling relevant surface points of a subject for a medical navigation system is presented. From a plurality of surface points of the subject, relevant surface points are accepted and non-relevant surface points are discarded. The method allows the surface geometry acquisition of a subject to be improved. For this purpose, additional information of the surface points is acquired and...