ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,633, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Think Surgical Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Method for confirming registration of tracked bones" was invented by Joel Zuhars (Fremont, Calif.), Daniel P. Bonny (Fremont, Calif.) and Saleh Tabandeh (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for confirming registration of a bone involved in a joint replacement procedure is provided. The system includes a three-dimensional (3-D) bone model of the bone registered to a bone location, a visible light camera, and a display. The visible light camera captures images of the bone in the camera's field-of-view (FOV). The display is configured to ...