ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,501, issued on March 3, was assigned to Brainlab SE (Munich).

"Stability estimation of a point set registration" was invented by Ivana Ivanovska (Aschheim, Germany), Hagen Kaiser (Icking, Germany), Pablo Aponte (Haar, Germany) and Jochen Veigel (Rosenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method encompassing acquiring data as to the geometric structure/topology of a predefined surface section as well as to an additional physical property assigned to the surface section, determining variability of the geometric structure/topology as well as of the additional physical property over the surface s...