ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,515, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to 7D SURGICAL ULC (Toronto).

"System and methods for intraoperative guidance feedback" was invented by Victor Xiao Dong Yang (North York, Canada), Beau Anthony Standish (Toronto), Adrian Linus Dinesh Mariampillai (Toronto) and Michael Ka Kit Leung (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for surgical guidance and image registration are provided, in which three-dimensional image data associated with an object or patient is registered to topological image data obtained using a surface topology imaging device. The surface topology imaging device may be rigidly attached to ...