US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Aug. 19 for "Optical tracking device with built-in structured light module" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,285, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland), SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Optical tracking device with built-in structured light module" was invented by Gaetan Marti (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Maurice Halg (Savigny, Switzerland) and Ranjith Steve Sivagnanaselvam (Moudon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed that includes an optical tracking device and a surgical computing device. The optical tracking device includes a structured light module and an optical module that includes an image se...