US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Sept. 16 for "System and method of determining optimal 3-dimensional position and orientation of imaging device for imaging patient bones" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,752, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"System and method of determining optimal 3-dimensional position and orientation of imaging device for imaging patient bones" was invented by Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the imaging arm's optimal 3-dimensional position and orientation for taking images of a body implant or body structure such as vertebral body is provided. Test images of vertebral body of interest are initially taken by the user and are received by the imaging device. The test images typically include AP and lateral x-ray imag...