US Patent Issued to GENESIS MEDTECH INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 30 for "Interactive augmented reality system for laparoscopic and video assisted surgeries" (Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,864, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GENESIS MEDTECH INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE Ltd. (Singapore).

"Interactive augmented reality system for laparoscopic and video assisted surgeries" was invented by Bin Zhao (Ellicott City, Md.), Ning Li (Pittsburgh) and Shan Wan (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes an interactive augmented reality system for improving surgeon's view and context awareness during laparoscopic and video assisted surgeries. Instead of purely relying on computer vision algorithms for image registration between pre-operation (or intra-operation) images/models and later intra-operation sc...