US Patent Issued on June 16 for "Bone landmarks extraction by bone surface palpation using ball tip stylus for computer assisted surgery navigation" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,621, issued on June 16.

"Bone landmarks extraction by bone surface palpation using ball tip stylus for computer assisted surgery navigation" was invented by Daniel Gehriger (Lausanne, Switzerland), Szymon Kostrzewski (Lausanne, Switzerland), Benoit Brot (Lausanne, Switzerland), Hayden Cameron (Philadelphia), Marc-Henri Primault (Saint-George, Switzerland) and Olivier Chappuis (Lutry, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for computer assisted navigation during surgery. At least one processor operates to identify locations of fiducials of a reference element on a ball tip stylus in images obtained from tracking cameras w...