US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 10 for "Flat panel registration fixture and method of using same" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,634, issued on June 10, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Flat panel registration fixture and method of using same" was invented by Alexander Krull (South Boston, Mass.), Thomas Calloway (Pelham, N.H.), Rand Kmiec (Nashua, N.H.), Neil Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.) and Gary Pinard (Manchester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registration fixture for use with a surgical navigation system for registration of medical images to a three-dimensional tracking space includes a base frame adapted to be mounted over a flat panel detector of an x-ray medical imaging device, and a side...