ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,461, issued on June 17, was assigned to THINK Surgical Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"System and method for aligning a tool with an axis to perform a medical procedure" was invented by Kyle Kuznik (Livermore, Calif.), Micah Forstein (Topeka, Kan.) and Daniel Bonny (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for aligning a tool with a targeted axis in tissue to perform a medical procedure. A medical plan is registered to the location of the tissue using a computer-assisted medical system, where the medical plan include a planned position for the targeted axis based on pre-procedure data. The tool is aligne...