US Patent Issued to Arthrex, The Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 25 for "Drift correction for mixed reality in surgical environments" (Maryland, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,512, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.) and The Johns Hopkins University (Bsltimore, Md.).

"Drift correction for mixed reality in surgical environments" was invented by Wenhao Gu (Baltimore), Mathias Unberath (Baltimore) and Jonathan Knopf (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking patient features in a surgical field includes capturing an image stream in a field of view demonstrating patient features of a patient anatomy. A first feature set is identified in a tracking region of the field of view of the image stream. The relative motion among a first plurality of the image features...