US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on Feb. 17 for "Individualizing generic reference models for operations on the basis of intraoperative state data" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,281, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Individualizing generic reference models for operations on the basis of intraoperative state data" was invented by Stefan Saur (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generic reference model for a planned operation defines a multiplicity of landmarks that describe the planned operation. State data that describe a specific operation are received, for example by a surgical microscope, while performing a specific operation on the basis of the planned operation. Then the generic reference model is individualized in relation to the specific operation ...