ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,643, issued on March 18, was assigned to REMEX MEDICAL CORP. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Method and navigation system for registering two-dimensional image data set with three-dimensional image data set of body of interest" was invented by Sheng-Fang Lin (Taiwan, Taiwan), Ying-Yi Cheng (Taiwan, Taiwan), Chen-Tai Lin (Taiwan, Taiwan) and Shan-Chien Cheng (Taiwan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for registering a two-dimensional image data set with a three-dimensional image data set of a body of interest is discloses herein. The method includes the following steps: defining a first vector of a registered virtual camera in a co...