ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,836, issued on April 22, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).
"Tracker with switchable radiation characteristics" was invented by Fadi Ghanam (Schallstadt, Germany), Fabian Riegelsberger (Umkirch, Germany), David Hofmann (Freiburg, Germany), Reinhold Zimmermann (Freiburg, Germany) and Andreas Reutter (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracker, a surgical navigation system with the tracker, and a method of operating the tracker are described. The tracker comprises a first switch configured to be operated between a first switch configuration and a second switch configuration. The tracker also ...