US Patent Issued to Aesculap on Oct. 27 for "Device for holding a transmitter arrangement interacting with an image or signal acquisition device of a surgical navigation system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,243, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Device for holding a transmitter arrangement interacting with an image or signal acquisition device of a surgical navigation system" was invented by Franz-Peter Firmbach (Emmingen-Liptingen, Germany), Katharina Welte (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Martin Nonnenmann (Wurmlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for holding a transmitter arrangement in a surgical navigation system has a base part and a fastener insertable into bone. A joint arrangement, which is held on the base part, includes a head, a shaft and a receiving part. The shaf...