US Patent Issued to Digital Surgery Systems on Aug. 5 for "Automated touchless registration for surgical navigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,915, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Digital Surgery Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Automated touchless registration for surgical navigation" was invented by Stephen C. Minne (Goleta, Calif.), George C. Polchin (Goleta, Calif.), Alan Fridman (Goleta, Calif.) and Michael Larkin (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for an automated touchless registration of patient anatomy for surgical navigation systems. An example method includes: acquiring a plurality of images of the patient; determining relevant objects from a plurality of poses; and processing the received images through a photogramme...