US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Nov. 4 for "System for neuronavigation registration and robotic trajectory guidance, and related methods and devices" (New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,451, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"System for neuronavigation registration and robotic trajectory guidance, and related methods and devices" was invented by Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia), Spiros Mantzavinos (Nashua, N.H.) and Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments consistent with the present disclosure allow the ring, arc, and linear offset values for a stereotactic frame to be determined for a cranial procedure without requiring a CT scan to be acquired with the fiducial frame attached. Having the ring, arc, and offset values available for a cranial proced...