US Patent Issued to Sunnybrook Research Institute on July 29 for "Systems and methods for surgical implant guidance and positioning with optical surface imaging" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,053, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sunnybrook Research Institute (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for surgical implant guidance and positioning with optical surface imaging" was invented by David M. Burns (Toronto), Cari M. Whyne (Toronto) and Normand Robert (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are systems and methods for positioning a surgical implant, such as a glenoid component, or other medical device intra-operatively. In general, the systems and methods described in the present disclosure implement a computer vision system, which may be a structured light computer vision system, together with a suitable op...