US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Sept. 16 for "Method for operating a medical navigation system for an image-guided surgical procedure" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,824, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for operating a medical navigation system for an image-guided surgical procedure" was invented by Per Suppa (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a medical navigation system for an image-guided surgical procedure including: training a first artificial neural network on a set of surgical image video data of a target object of a patient representing a video image, and identifying the structure of the target object; training a second artificial neural network on at least one virtual three-dimensional target object model of the targ...