US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 29 for "Surgical systems and methods for providing surgical guidance with a head-mounted device" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,984, issued on July 29, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical systems and methods for providing surgical guidance with a head-mounted device" was invented by Benjamin VanDyken (Plainwell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device (HMD) for use with a navigation system. The navigation system includes a localizer and a bone tracker coupled to a physical bone. The localizer monitors the bone tracker to track a pose of the physical bone in a localizer coordinate system. Controller(s) obtain surgical plan data related to the physical bone. The surgical plan data includes a virtual model of the physical...