US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Feb. 11 for "Imaging system and method for use in surgical and interventional medical procedures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,118, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Imaging system and method for use in surgical and interventional medical procedures" was invented by Robert E. Isaacs (San Diego), Samuel Morris Johnston (San Diego), David Alexander Skwerer (San Diego) and Randall Graham Campbell (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for displaying images of internal anatomy includes an image processing device configured to provide high resolution images of the surgical field from low resolution scans during the procedure. The image processing device digitally manipulates a previously-obtained high r...