US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on July 22 for "Method and system for optically detecting the pose of at least one instrument in an operating theater" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,604, issued on July 22, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Method and system for optically detecting the pose of at least one instrument in an operating theater" was invented by Dominik Litsch (Schorndorf, Germany) and Stefan Saur (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for optically detecting a pose of at least one instrument in an operating theater are provided. The method includes determining pose information of the at least one instrument with an optical pose detection device of a surgical microscope or with a microscope-external optical pose detection device, determining whether ...