US Patent Issued to Medos International on March 18 for "Systems, methods, and devices for localized tracking of a vertebral body or other anatomic structure" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,168, issued on March 18, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Systems, methods, and devices for localized tracking of a vertebral body or other anatomic structure" was invented by Robert Brik (Cambridge, Mass.), Brice Dudley Jr. (Round Rock, Texas), William Miller (Middleboro, Mass.), Marc Puls (Thorigen, Switzerland), William Frasier (New Bedford, Mass.) and Cheng-Ju Wu (Raynham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instruments for tracking localized movement of an anatomic structure at a surgical site are provided that can, for example, detect and identify movement of the anatomi...