US Patent Issued to Brainlab on Dec. 16 for "Patterned incision foil and method for determining a geometry of an anatomical surface" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,568, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Brainlab AG (Munich).

"Patterned incision foil and method for determining a geometry of an anatomical surface" was invented by Christian Schmaler (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An incision foil made of a sterile, thin adhesive plastic film with a defined pattern printed on it (e.g. a fine grid pattern) can be stuck e.g. on a patient's skin surface and which marks the anatomical region of interest. Using a camera, images are acquired of the attached film and the deformation of the pattern is digitized. With a computer vision algorithm the surface of the patient, which corresponds to the ...