US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 22 for "Systems and methods for comparing localization and vision data to identify an avoidance region" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,548, issued on July 22, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for comparing localization and vision data to identify an avoidance region" was invented by Donald W. Malackowski (Schoolcraft, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable medium for comparing localizer and image data to identify a region, such as an avoidance region or object. A localizer generates the localizer data associated with a surgical object. A vision device generates image data associated with the surgical object and an environment of the surgical object within a field-of-view...