US Patent Issued to Fiagon on July 14 for "Surgical kit for minimally invasive spine surgery" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,190, issued on July 14, was assigned to Fiagon GMBH (Hennigsdorf, Germany).

"Surgical kit for minimally invasive spine surgery" was invented by Nicholas Norman (Charlotte, N.C.), Robert Hedermann (Berlin), Malte Bergfeld (Berlin), Dirk Mucha (Glienicke/Nordbahn, Germany) and Kai Desinger (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a surgical kit, for performing minimally invasive spine surgery. The surgical kit comprises a position detection system, configured for detecting position and orientation of localizers from received sensor signals in the position detection system's coordinate system. The surgical kit als...