ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,772, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nuvasive Inc. (San Diego).
"Three-dimensional visualization during surgery" was invented by Eric Finley (San Diego), Kara Robinson (San Diego), DJ Geiger (San Diego), Justin Smith (San Diego) and Chris Ryan (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising segmenting at least one vertebral body from at least one image of a first three-dimensional image data set. The method comprises receiving at least one image of a second three-dimensional image data set. The method comprises registering the segmented at least one vertebral body from the at least one image of the first three-dimens...