US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Jan. 13 for "Surgical object tracking template generation for computer assisted navigation during surgical procedure" (Arizona, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,188, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Surgical object tracking template generation for computer assisted navigation during surgical procedure" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Thomas Calloway (Pelham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera tracking system for computer assisted navigation during surgery. The camera tracking system includes a processor operative to receive streams of video frames from tracking cameras which image a plurality of physical objects arranged as a reference array. For each of the physical objects imaged in a sequence of the video frames, that...