ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,009, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to InnerOptic Technology Inc. (Hillsborough, N.C.).
"Surgical guidance intersection display" was invented by Brian Heaney (Durham, N.C.), Andrei State (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Luv Kohli (Durham, N.C.) and Sharif Razzaque (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing image guidance for placement of one or more medical devices at a target location. The system can determine one or more intersections between a medical device and an image region based at least in part on first emplacement data and second emplacement data. Using the determined intersections, the system can...