ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,650, issued on March 17, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).
"Spinal hardware rendering" was invented by Adele Marie Cecile Courot (Paris), Nicolas Gogin (Chatenay Malabry, France), Heber Hernandez (Salt Lake City) and Quang Minh Nguyen (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques that facilitate improved spinal hardware rendering are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a medical imaging voxel array depicting a spine of a medical patient. In various aspects, the system can determine whether the medical imaging voxel array depicts a set of surgical hardware inserted in the spine...