US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 5 for "Assembly for positioning a sterile surgical drape relative to optical position sensors" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,931, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Assembly for positioning a sterile surgical drape relative to optical position sensors" was invented by Donald W. Malackowski (Schoolcraft, Mich.), Jose Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera (Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, N.M.), Helmut Rohs (Freiburg, Germany) and Norbert Riedlinger (Riegel Am Kaiserstuhl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera and drape assembly for use with one or more tracking elements of a surgical system. The assembly includes a camera unit including a casing and a plurality of optical sensors supported by the casing for detecting the one or mo...