ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,385, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHENZHEN FUTURTEC MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Surgical guide" was invented by Yanzhi Liu (Shenzhen, China), Donghui Sun (Shenzhen, China), Wei Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Shengxiao Zhu (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical navigation system comprising a positioning marker on a surgical instrument, a tracer on a bone, a binocular camera, and a computer. The tracer has a navigation tracer surface. The positioning marker comprises a navigation surface. The binocular camera is connected to the computer, and transmits acquired information of the tracer and the positioni...