ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,821, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
"System and method for registering operating images" was invented by Bing-Feng Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Jin-Yuan Syue (Tainan, Taiwan), Hsiang-Hsiang Choo (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Lung Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for registering operating images includes an X-ray imaging machine, a visible-light camera, a rectifier and a computer system. The X-ray imaging machine captures a first X-ray image of the rectifier, and the visible-light camera captures a first visible-light image of the rectifi...