US Patent Issued to Circinus Medical Technology on Oct. 7 for "System and method for lidar-based anatomical mapping" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,690, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Circinus Medical Technology LLC (Concord, Mass.).

"System and method for lidar-based anatomical mapping" was invented by John Kyle Dorman (Midland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for lidar-based anatomical mapping is provided. In one implementation, a LIDAR imaging technology is utilized to create a surface-based anatomical map of an exposed anatomical surface of at least a portion of the spine, or other anatomical features, using anatomical and/or artificial landmarks are disclosed. The surface mapping can then be registered with previously acquired images of at least the...