ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,507, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Global Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Dynamic reference arrays and methods of use" was invented by Nicholas Theodore (Ruxton, Md.), Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Mitchell A. Foster (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic reference arrays use markers and trackers to register a patient's anatomy to computer system. Wherein the dynamic reference array may be screwed into a patient's spinous process, clamped on to a spinous process, or attached to the spinous process using posts. In embodiments, a dynamic reference array may comprise a single structure comprising and attac...