US Patent Issued to ERBE VISION on May 19 for "Apparatus and method for positioning a patient's body and tracking the patient's position during surgery" (German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,307, issued on May 19, was assigned to ERBE VISION GMBH (Wurmlingen, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for positioning a patient's body and tracking the patient's position during surgery" was invented by Shirish Joshi (Wurmlingen, Germany), Faisal Kalim (Reutlingen, Germany) and Subhamoy Mandal (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system uses a body shape capturing device for acquiring a patient's body shape and a 3D shape generating device for additively manufacturing a patient receiving device that is at least partially adapted to the patient's body shape or at least partially deviates from the patient's body s...