US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 24 for "Augmented reality headset with varied opacity for navigated robotic surgery" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,868, issued on June 24, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Augmented reality headset with varied opacity for navigated robotic surgery" was invented by Thomas Calloway (Pelham, N.H.), Weston Healy (Durham, N.C.), Isaac Dulin (Somerville, Mass.), Dale Earle (Hudson, N.H.) and Keiichi Matsuda (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes an AR headset and a AR headset controller. The AR headset is configured to be worn by a user during a surgical procedure and has a see-through display screen configured to display an AR image and to allow at least a portion of a real-world scene to pass therethroug...