ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,988, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG (Jena, Germany).

"Method and system for determining a pose of at least one object in an operating theatre" was invented by Stefan Saur (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and a system for determining a pose of at least one object in an operating theatre, in a reference coordinate system of a pose detection device of a surgical microscope, involving the determination of the pose of the object by way of a movably arranged microscope-external pose detection device in a first coordinate system, the first coordinate system being a c...