US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics on May 20 for "Calibration of 2D images for digital templating using monomarker" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,340, issued on May 20, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) and Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Calibration of 2D images for digital templating using monomarker" was invented by Christoph K. Boese (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating a frontal 2D image of a pelvis of a patient is disclosed. Frontal and lateral 2D images are received, where a fiducial marker is positioned on the patient's suprapubic region during image capture. A first distance of the fiducial marker from the imaging detector is determined based o...