ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,324, issued on May 6, was assigned to Intellijoint Surgical Inc. (Kitchener, Canada).

"Tracker mounting apparatus with kinematic interfaces" was invented by Riley Aaron Bloomfield (New Hamburg, Canada), Joseph Arthur Schipper (Kitchener, Canada) and Andre Novomir Hladio (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided tracker coupling apparatus for coupling an optical tracker to a patient anatomy. An apparatus comprises a body having a bone coupling interface located at a first end of the body, for coupling the apparatus to the bone, and a second end that comprises a tracker coupling interface to couple to the trac...