US Patent Issued to Medivis on Oct. 28 for "Automatic registration of landmarks for augmented reality assisted surgery" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,267, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Medivis Inc. (New York).

"Automatic registration of landmarks for augmented reality assisted surgery" was invented by Long Qian (Watchung, N.J.), Christopher Morley (New York), Osamah Choudhry (New York) and Florentin Jonas Liebmann (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 Registration Engine that identifies a region of interest from an infrared image portraying a target portion of a physical anatomy in a current physical pose. The Registration Engine generates a 3D point cloud...