ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,835, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Novarad Corp. (Provo, Utah).
"Augmented reality viewing and tagging for medical procedures" was invented by Wendell Arlen Gibby (Mapleton, Utah) and Steven Todd Cvetko (Draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is described for augmenting medical imaging for use in a medical procedure. The method can include the operation of receiving an image of patient anatomy captured by a visual image camera during the medical procedure. An acquired medical image associated with the patient anatomy can then be retrieved. Another operation can be associating the acquired medical image to the p...