US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on May 13 for "Augmented reality based surgical navigation system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,662, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Augmented reality based surgical navigation system" was invented by Ehsan Azimi (Baltimore), Peter Kazanzides (Lutherville-Timonium, Md.), Judy Huang (Baltimore) and Camilo Molina (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by an augmented reality device, a medical image of a surgical site, generating, by the augmented reality device, a virtual surgical site model based on the medical image; presenting, by the augmented reality device, the virtual surgical site model; receiving, by the augmented reality d...