US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Nov. 11 for "Methods of adjusting a virtual implant and related surgical navigation systems" (Pennsylvania, California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,433, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Methods of adjusting a virtual implant and related surgical navigation systems" was invented by Ryan Decker (Pittsburgh), Jeffrey Forsyth (Cranston, R.I.), Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), Mir Hussain (Downingtown, Pa.), Andrew Berkowitz (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael Brauckmann (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods may be provided to operate an image-guided surgical system using imaging information for a 3-dimensional anatomical volume. A pose of a probe that defines a longitudinal axis may be de...