US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Nov. 18 for "Robotic fluoroscopic navigation" (Arizona, Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,008, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Robotic fluoroscopic navigation" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.), Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), Wes Weber (Golden, Colo.) and Alexander Krull (Boston).

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 a medical image or images to a three-dimensional tracking space that includes a first ring having at least one tracking marker, a second ring coupled to the first ring having at least one tracking marker and wherein the first ring and the second ring are spaced apart f...