US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for visualizing a trajectory with a surgical instrument" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,686, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for visualizing a trajectory with a surgical instrument" was invented by Rahul Sharma (Gurgaon, India) and Sanjeev Gautam (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system for operating on a bone of a patient is described. The surgical system includes a reference device including one or more radiopaque markers, a first sensor configured to generate a first signal pertaining to orientation data of the reference device relative to a first coordinate system, a surgical instrument for coupling to an end effector, a second sensor conf...