ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,374, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).
"Surgical guidance for surgical tools" was invented by Sergii Poltaretskyi (Ependes FR, Switzerland), Damien Cariou (Loperhet, France) and Bryan Florentin Zago (Brest, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example physical tracking tool includes a main body defining a channel configured to receive a tool, the channel having a longitudinal axis; and one or more physical tracking features attached to the main body, each physical tracking feature comprising a plurality of planar faces, each planar face of the plurality of planar faces including differen...