US Patent Issued to OnPoint Medical on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for determining the shape of spinal rods and spinal interbody devices for use with augmented reality displays, navigation systems and robots in minimally invasive spine procedures" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,761, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OnPoint Medical Inc. (Franconia, N.H.).

"Systems and methods for determining the shape of spinal rods and spinal interbody devices for use with augmented reality displays, navigation systems and robots in minimally invasive spine procedures" was invented by Chuang-Jang Chiou (Bedford, Mass.), Daniel Steines (Lexington, Mass.) and Philipp K. Lang (Franconia, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, techniques, devices and methods are described for determining an axis, a curvature, and/or a 3D shape of spinal rods for optional display on a computer monitor and/or an augmented reality display. S...