ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,979, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Medivis Inc. (New York).

"Surgical fiducial marker positioner" was invented by Jesse Harrison Gallant (New York), Christopher Morley (New York) and Osamah Choudhry (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical fiducial marker positioner can include a rigid frame and a positioner coupling component. The rigid frame can support a plurality of surgical fiducial markers at fixed positions relative to each other along the rigid frame to form a fixed positional arrangement of surgical fiducial markers. The rigid frame can define a polygon arranged along a plane and the fixed positional arrangem...