US Patent Issued to X-Nav Technologies on Aug. 26 for "Landmark registration system for image-guided navigation" (American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,804, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to X-Nav Technologies LLC (Lansdale, Pa.).

"Landmark registration system for image-guided navigation" was invented by Jason Gibbs (State College, Pa.), Scott A. Merritt (Green Lane, Pa.), Robert W. Emery III (Mclean, Va.), Pascal Kunz (Oberwil-Lieli, Sweden), Edward J. Marandola (Gwynedd, Pa.) and Christopher W. Scharff (Collegeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landmark registration registers landmark points of navigation guidance information for performing a navigational guidance of a surgery procedure. The registration operation comprises a landmark point identification procedure and a...