US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics on Feb. 10 for "Easy to manufacture autoclavable LED for optical tracking" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,149, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) and Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Easy to manufacture autoclavable LED for optical tracking" was invented by Gaetan Marti (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Maurice Halg (Savigny, Switzerland), Olivier Girard (Gland, Switzerland), Matthias Lambert (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Marc Mato Sabat (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical tracking system is provided. The optical tracking system comprises an autoclavable fiducial marker assembly including an opaque hous...