ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,817, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Surgical Theater Inc. (Beachwood, Ohio).
"Surgical navigation inside a body" was invented by Yahav Tako (New York), Alon Yakob Geri (Beachwood, Ohio), Mordechai Avisar (Highland Heights, Ohio) and Eliahu Teichman (Byniamina, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual reality surgical navigation method includes the steps of preparing a multi dimension virtual model associated with an anatomy inside of patient; receiving data indicative of a surgeon's current head position, including direction of view and angle of view; rendering a first virtual three-dimensional image from the virtual model...