ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,337, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Positioning and orientation of a hand-guided modality" was invented by Oliver Schmidt (Erlangen, Germany), Sabine Mollus (Julich, Germany), Oliver Hornung (Unterleinleiter, Germany), Amilcar Alzaga (Schonbrunn im Steigerwald, Germany) and Jens-Christoph Georgi (Oberasbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-guided modality is to be positioned with little effort or radiation load. To this end an object model is created from 3D data of an object. Moreover, a surface model of the object is created. Both models are registered to one another....