US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Dartmouth College on Oct. 28 for "Intraoperative stereovision-based vertebral position monitoring" (New Hampshire, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,276, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Intraoperative stereovision-based vertebral position monitoring" was invented by Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, N.H.), Xiaoyao Fan (Hanover, N.H.) and William R. Warner (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraoperative stereovision system has a stereo imager configured to provide stereo images at first and second time (iSV0, iSV(n)) to an image processor configured with a computerized mechanical model of a spinal column, the computerized mechanical model configured to model vertebrae as rigid, displaceable, bodies. The image process...