US Patent Issued to Think Surgical on Jan. 27 for "Light guided digitization method to register a bone" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,194, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Think Surgical Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Light guided digitization method to register a bone" was invented by Eustache Felenc (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, device, and method is provided that improves the point collection process during bone registration for computer-assisted surgical procedures. A user is guided in the point collection process by projecting a set of points directly on the bone with a tracked digitizer probe following a rough registration of the bone. The system, device, and method therefore negates the need for the user to constantly look-up on an in...