US Patent Issued to MAKO Surgical on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for surgical navigation" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,347, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MAKO Surgical Corp. (Weston, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for surgical navigation" was invented by Jeremy Weinstein (Davie, Fla.), Andrei Danilchenko (Miami) and Jose Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed reality system includes a head-mounted device (HMD) having an HMD coordinate system and a camera to capture images. A localizer has a localizer coordinate system and position sensors supported by a housing to track a pose of a real object. Registration markers are configured to be recognized from the captured images of the camera of the HMD. The ...