US Patent Issued to NuVasive on Dec. 2 for "Surgical instrument tracking devices and related methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,972, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).

"Surgical instrument tracking devices and related methods" was invented by Brett Coakley (San Diego), Shoun Matsuka (San Diego), Guy Nimrodi (San Diego), Michael Serra (San Diego), Michael Barela (San Diego), Megan Jeffords (San Diego) and Danielle Richterkessing (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes systems for surgical navigation, the system comprising a tracking array attachable to a medical instrument, an image capturing device, and a navigation system that communicates with the image capturing device and generates tracking inform...