US Patent Issued to Surgical Targeted Solutions on July 8 for "Instrument bourne optical time of flight kinematic position sensing system for precision targeting and methods of surgery" (Virginia, Ohio, Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,982, issued on July 8, was assigned to Surgical Targeted Solutions Inc. (Akron, Ohio).

"Instrument bourne optical time of flight kinematic position sensing system for precision targeting and methods of surgery" was invented by Quang-Viet Nguyen (Aldie, Va.), Ian P. Kay (Fairlawn, Ohio), David B. Kay (Akron, Ohio), Bryan Den Hartog (St. Paul, Minn.) and Richard Frank (Newtonville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical devices en-vivo positional determination system using a plurality of optical time of flight (TDF) transceivers along with gyroscopic angular and mechanical distance sensors for the determination of absolute linea...