ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,957, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Instrument calibration" was invented by Steffen Schumann (Zofingen, Switzerland) and Marc Puls (Thorigen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical instrument calibration methods, systems, and devices are provided that allow a virtual representation of a surgical instrument to be modified to adjust for any variations in a distal tip of a surgical instrument. For example, an instrument calibration system is provided that can have a surgical instrument, a calibration instrument, and a monitoring system. The surgical instrument can have a di...