ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,962, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ERBE VISION GMBH (Wurmlingen, Germany).
"System and method for image registration" was invented by Shirish Joshi (Wurmlingen, Germany), Faisal Kalim (Reutlingen, Germany) and Subhamoy Mandal (West Bengal, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing augmented reality to a surgeon with the steps of acquiring at least one preoperative medical scan image of a region of interest in which the surgery is to be performed and introducing a fiducial device non-invasively or minimal invasively into a body lumen present in the region of intere...