US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Dec. 2 for "Registration of surgical tool with reference array tracked by cameras of an extended reality headset for assisted navigation during surgery" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,971, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Registration of surgical tool with reference array tracked by cameras of an extended reality headset for assisted navigation during surgery" was invented by Thomas Calloway (Pelham, N.H.) and Isaac Dulin (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera tracking system is disclosed for computer assisted navigation during surgery. The camera tracking system is configured to identify a reference array tracked by a set of tracking cameras attached to an extended reality (XR) headset, and determine whether the reference array is registered as being paired...