ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,438, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Insight Medical Systems Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Augmented reality assisted navigation of knee replacement" was invented by Matthew William Ryan (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Jonathan Kirk Nielsen (Cedar Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are self-contained surgical navigation systems which include a head-worn display device to be worn by a user during surgery. The system includes a display generator for generating a visual display on the display device, and a sensor suite having at least one tracking camera. The system further includes a support module including: a user-replac...