US Patent Issued to Stryker on May 6 for "Navigation systems and methods for indicating and reducing line-of-sight errors" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,321, issued on May 6, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Navigation systems and methods for indicating and reducing line-of-sight errors" was invented by Donald W. Malackowski (Schoolcraft, Mich.) and Jose Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking device for a navigation system that includes a localizer. The tracking device has a tracking body. At least one tracking element is supported by the tracking body and configured to transmit a tracking signal for the localizer. A visual indicator is supported by the tracking body and has an emitter configured to generate a visible...