US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on July 22 for "Technique of generating surgical information from intra-operatively and pre-operatively acquired image data" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,598, issued on July 22, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Technique of generating surgical information from intra-operatively and pre-operatively acquired image data" was invented by Florian Herrmann (Schwanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of generating surgical information from intra-operatively acquired image data of vertebrae and pre-operatively acquired image data of the vertebrae is presented. A method implementation includes obtaining first image segments each containing a different vertebra, and second image segments each containing a different vertebra. The first...