US Patent Issued to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. on Aug. 12 for "Automatic detection of tracking array motion during navigated surgery" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,346, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DEPUY IRELAND UNLtd. COMPANY (County Cork, Ireland).

"Automatic detection of tracking array motion during navigated surgery" was invented by Claire Baegert (Grenoble, France) and Adrien Anxionnat (Allemond, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting movement of a first navigation array relative to a bone during computer-assisted surgery, including: monitoring a location of a landmark on the bone using the first navigation array, wherein the landmark is at a first end of the bone and the first navigation array is adjacent to a second end of the bone; determining that...