US Patent Issued to Ortoma on Feb. 10 for "Method and system for associating pre-operative plan with position data of surgical instrument" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,142, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ortoma AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and system for associating pre-operative plan with position data of surgical instrument" was invented by Andreas Pettersson (Molnlycke, Sweden) and Pasi Riihinen (Molndal, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An association of a pre-operative plan and tracked position and orientation of a surgical instrument relative patient anatomy in a navigation system is generated. The pre-operative plan includes a virtual representation of the patient anatomy data. Position and orientation of the patient anatomy as well as position and orientation of the surgical in...