US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on July 8 for "Registration of 3D and 2D images for surgical navigation and robotic guidance without using radiopaque fiducials in the images" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,263, issued on July 8, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Registration of 3D and 2D images for surgical navigation and robotic guidance without using radiopaque fiducials in the images" was invented by Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), Paden Troxell (Conshohocken, Pa.), Caroline Conrad (Emmaus, Pa.), Mert Erad (Malden, Mass.), Nicholas Maritato (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Brauckmann (Woburn, Mass.) and Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method of registering a medical image of a patient in an imaging space to the patient in a physical space preferably without the use of ...