ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,180, issued on March 18, was assigned to MedTech S.A. (Montpellier, France).
"Optical camera positioning tool" was invented by Martin Kristian Eckhard Brummund (Montreal), Jean-Sebastien Merette (Mont-St-Hiliare, Canada) and Mohamed Yessine Yengui (Saint-Leonard, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method may be used to position or orient a camera within a surgical field. A method may include generating a graphical user interface including a first set of instructions to reposition the camera, and determining whether the camera is within a target volume location. The method may include automatically outputting an indic...