US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Meditec on July 29 for "Medical apparatus for determining the relative spatial position of a planar marker" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,989, issued on July 29, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Medical apparatus for determining the relative spatial position of a planar marker" was invented by Christian Voigt (Abtsgmuend, Germany) and Nils Haverkamp (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical apparatus for determining a relative spatial position of a planar marker is provided. The medical apparatus has an illumination device configured to illuminate the marker, a detector configured to detect light steered from the marker to the detector, and an evaluation device configured to determine a direction of a tilt of the marker from an ana...