ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,493, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to B. Braun New Ventures GmbH (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany).
"Navigation system having a 3-D surface scanner" was invented by Amir Sarvestani (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical navigation system includes a tracking system for tracking the patient and preferably a medical instrument. A 3-D surface scanner can create a 3-D surface recording of an intracorporeal anatomy of the patient while being tracked by the tracking system. A control unit processes the 3-D surface recording and the pose of the tracked 3-D surface scanner and of the patient, determine a pose of the 3-D ...