ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,252, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (Jena, Germany).

"Fusion of spatial and temporal context for location determination for visualization systems" was invented by Markus Philipp (Stuttgart, Germany), Stefan Saur (Aalen, Germany), Anna Alperovich (Aalen, Germany) and Franziska Mathis-Ullrich (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating a control signal by locating at least one instrument by way of a combination of machine learning systems on the basis of digital images is described. In this case, the method includes determining parameter values of a movement ...