US Patent Issued to HUTOM on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and method for matching an actual surgical image with a 3D-based virtual simulated surgical image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,629, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HUTOM INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for matching an actual surgical image with a 3D-based virtual simulated surgical image" was invented by Min Kook Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Bum Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Nak Jun Sung (Seoul, South Korea), Ye Jin Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Jae Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, a method for matching an actual surgical image and a 3D-based virtual surgical simulation environment, which is performed by an apparatus, includes setting POI information during su...