ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,496, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Medivis Inc. (New York).

"Detached visualization for surgical navigation in mixed reality" was invented by Long Qian (Watchung, N.J.), Christopher Morley (New York), Osamah Choudhry (New York) and Diego Salume (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Detached Visualization Engine for detecting coordinates for a target portion of a physical anatomy in a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space. The Detached Visualization Engine renders an overlay visualization of a display ...