ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,324, issued on March 24, was assigned to Brainlab SE (Munich).

"Spine level determination using augmented reality" was invented by Oliver Fleig (Baldham, Germany), Martin Koestler (Munich), Christian Schmaler (Munich), Christian Dax (Munich), Nicole Kerstein (Munich) and Juliane Weinzierl (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of registering a digital model of an anatomical body part corresponding to a patient body part. The method encompasses input, to an augmented reality viewing device, of data defining a digital model of an anatomical body part. The model comprises at least one vertex w...