US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific on Feb. 10 for "Method for enabling medical navigation with minimised invasiveness" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,143, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland) and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method for enabling medical navigation with minimised invasiveness" was invented by Manuel Millahn (Munich), Bert Bracke (Vaterstetten, Germany) and Christian Brack (Neusass, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing positional relationship data, which represent the position of a marker device relative to a bone which it is affixed to, to a medical navigation system, including receiving bone registration data which represent location...