US Patent Issued to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION on April 22 for "Detection of unintentional movement of a reference marker and automatic re-registration" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,834, issued on April 22, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).

"Detection of unintentional movement of a reference marker and automatic re-registration" was invented by Robb Colbrunn (Hinckley, Ohio), Callan Gillespie (Cleveland) and Joshua Golubovsky (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is the automatic re-registration of a bumped reference marker, where the navigation system includes the reference marker, a bump detection sensor(s), and a computing device. The computing device can store positional relationships between the reference marker, the bump detection sensor(s), and the anatomy fr...