US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Sept. 30 for "Systems, methods, and devices for detecting anatomical features" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,754, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for detecting anatomical features" was invented by Victor D. Snyder (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a vertebral endplate rim according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes receiving, at a processor, a binary mask of a vertebra; applying a Laplacian filter to the binary mask to yield a processed image; identifying, in the processed image, a set of edges having a sharpness that exceeds a predetermined threshold; deformably registering a template to a plurality of points c...