US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on May 13 for "Displaying a virtual model of a planned instrument attachment to ensure correct selection of physical instrument attachment" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,798, issued on May 13, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Displaying a virtual model of a planned instrument attachment to ensure correct selection of physical instrument attachment" was invented by Weston Healy (Cambridge, Mass.), Thomas Calloway (Pelham, N.H.) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual model a planned instrument attachment can be provided to ensure correct selection of a physical instrument attachment. An XR headset controller can generate a shape and a pose of the virtual model of the planned instrument attachment based on predetermined information associat...