US Patent Issued to Alphatec Spine on Aug. 18 for "Systems and methods for producing real-time calibrated stereo long radiographic views of a patient on a surgical table" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,343, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Alphatec Spine Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for producing real-time calibrated stereo long radiographic views of a patient on a surgical table" was invented by Shahram Amiri (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracked mobile X-ray imaging equipment is used to produce single or stereo long calibrated views of the anatomy of a patient on the operating table. The system estimates the position and orientation of the anatomical planes, virtually places measurement grids over these reference planes, and transforms any radiographic views taking by the X-ray imaging syste...